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Cloud-radiation interactions and their parameterization in climate models

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OSTI ID:71652
This report contains papers from the International Workshop on Cloud-Radiation Interactions and Their Parameterization in Climate Models met on 18--20 October 1993 in Camp Springs, Maryland, USA. It was organized by the Joint Working Group on Clouds and Radiation of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. Recommendations were grouped into three broad areas: (1) general circulation models (GCMs), (2) satellite studies, and (3) process studies. Each of the panels developed recommendations on the. themes of the workshop. Explicitly or implicitly, each panel independently recommended observations of basic cloud microphysical properties (water content, phase, size) on the scales resolved by GCMs. Such observations are necessary to validate cloud parameterizations in GCMs, to use satellite data to infer radiative forcing in the atmosphere and at the earth`s surface, and to refine the process models which are used to develop advanced cloud parameterizations.
Research Organization:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, MD (United States). Science Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AI02-93ER61551
OSTI ID:
71652
Report Number(s):
CONF-9310433--Absts.; ON: DE95011484
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English