| タイトル | RACORO Extended-Term Aircraft Observations of Boundary-Layer Clouds |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20140011365 |
| 著者（英） | Monroe, Justin W.; Schmid, Beat; McFarlane, Sally A.; Lo, Chaomei; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Comstock, Jennifer M.; Long, Charles N.; Lawson, R. Paul; Turner, David D.; Bucholtz, Anthony; Yang, Hee-Jung; Feingold, Graham; Chiu, J. Christine; Marshak, Alexander; Woods, Roy K.; Hubbe, John M.; Jonsson, Haflidi H.; Gerber, Hermann; Toto, Tami; Ogren, John A.; Collins, Don R.; Tomlinson, Jason M.; Vogelmann, Andrew M.; Hartsock, Daniel; Diskin, Glenn S.; Andrews, Elisabeth |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2012-06-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | Small boundary-layer clouds are ubiquitous over many parts of the globe and strongly influence the Earths radiative energy balance. However, our understanding of these clouds is insufficient to solve pressing scientific problems. For example, cloud feedback represents the largest uncertainty amongst all climate feedbacks in general circulation models (GCM). Several issues complicate understanding boundary-layer clouds and simulating them in GCMs. The high spatial variability of boundary-layer clouds poses an enormous computational challenge, since their horizontal dimensions and internal variability occur at spatial scales much finer than the computational grids used in GCMs. Aerosol-cloud interactions further complicate boundary-layer cloud measurement and simulation. Additionally, aerosols influence processes such as precipitation and cloud lifetime. An added complication is that at small scales (order meters to 10s of meters) distinguishing cloud from aerosol is increasingly difficult, due to the effects of aerosol humidification, cloud fragments and photon scattering between clouds. |
| NASA分類 | Geophysics; Meteorology and Climatology |
| レポートNO | GSFC-E-DAA-TN9139 |
| 権利 | Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright |
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