ISCCP cloud based verification of CMIP5 climate simulations
| Autor: | Lindsey Hayden, Zaitao Pan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Earth's energy budget
Cloud forcing 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Meteorology Atmospheric circulation Cloud top Cloud cover Atmospheric model 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Physics::Geophysics Climatology International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Environmental science Precipitation Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | IGARSS |
| DOI: | 10.1109/igarss.2016.7729140 |
| Popis: | Clouds are a highly important part of the climate system, and have a large impact on the radiation balance, temperature, and the precipitation of a region, as well as the regional and global circulation, and the vertical and horizontal transport of both moisture and energy. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) clouds were used to verify the simulation of clouds over North America in the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) run in CMIP5 experiments. The modeled clouds resemble the observed spatial-temporal distribution of clouds including low (high) amounts of cloud cover over the ocean (continent), while the model tends to underestimate cloud cover in general. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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