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  • How can we quantify the coupling of the diabatic radiative and diabatic precipitation forcing by clouds?

    Posted on August 2nd, 2009 Submitted by akbetts
    Categorized as Climate, Earth System Tagged as atmosphere, diabatic forcing

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    The diabatic forcing by clouds drive the vertical transports in the atmosphere, particularly in the tropics and the warm season; and establish the regional and tropical climate. Typically these diabatic terms have significant biases in models which bias the climate: hence these errors need to be evaluated against data and fixed.



 

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