Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge

Many of the clouds important to the Earth’s energy balance, from the tropics to the Arctic, are optically thin and contain liquid water. Longwave and shortwave radiative fluxes are very sensitive to small perturbations of the cloud liquid water path (LWP) when the LWP is small (i.e.,

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2007-02, Vol.88 (2)
Main Authors: Turner, David D., Vogelmann, A. M., Austin, Richard T., Barnard, James C., Cady-Pereira, Karen, Chiu, C., Clough, Shepard A., Flynn, Connor J., Khaiyer, Mandana M., Liljegren, James C., Johnson, Karen L., Lin, B., Long, Charles N., Marshak, A., Matrosov, S. Y., McFarlane, Sally A., Miller, Mark A., Min, Qilong, Minnis, Patrick, O'Hirok, William, Wang, Zhien, Wiscombe, Warren J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ALGORITHMS
CLASSIFICATION
CLIMATE MODELS
CLOUDS
ENERGY BALANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
EVALUATION
WATER
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Summary:Many of the clouds important to the Earth’s energy balance, from the tropics to the Arctic, are optically thin and contain liquid water. Longwave and shortwave radiative fluxes are very sensitive to small perturbations of the cloud liquid water path (LWP) when the LWP is small (i.e.,
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/BAMS-88-2-177