Study to Investigate Cloud Feedback Processes and Evaluate GCM Cloud Variations Using Statistical Cloud Property Composites From ARM Data.

Tselioudis, G. ; DelGenio, A. ; Rossow, W.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Clouds;    Climatology;    Comparisons;    Numberical models;    Model deficiencies;   

RP-ID  :  DE2010962208

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The project included two primary goals. The first was to create a cloud type climatology over the Southern Great Planes site that will show how cloud vertical distribution varies with dynamic and thermodynamic regime and how these variations would affect cloud climate feedbacks. The second was to compare this climatology to clouds derived by a numerical model in order to identify the major model deficiencies in cloud vertical distribution and map their seasonal variations. The following two paragraphs summarize the project accomplishments with respect to those two goals.