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Research article
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29 Jul 2020
Research article |
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| 29 Jul 2020
Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts
Jonathon S. Wright
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Xiaoyi Sun
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Paul Konopka
Forschungszentrum Jülich (IEK-7: Stratosphere), Jülich, Germany
Kirstin Krüger
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Bernard Legras
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR CNRS 8539, IPSL, PSL-ENS/Sorbonne Université/École Polytechnique, Paris, France
Andrea M. Molod
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Susann Tegtmeier
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Guang J. Zhang
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Short summary
High clouds are influential in tropical climate. Although reanalysis cloud fields are essentially model products, they are indirectly constrained by observations and offer global coverage with direct links to advanced water and energy cycle metrics, giving them many useful applications. We describe how high cloud fields are generated in reanalyses, assess their realism and reliability in the tropics, and evaluate how differences in these fields affect other aspects of the reanalysis state.
High clouds are influential in tropical climate. Although reanalysis cloud fields are...
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