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.,
Revised: August 6, 2010 |
Published: February 19, 2007
Citation
Turner D.D., A.M. Vogelmann, R.T. Austin, J.C. Barnard, K. Cady-Pereira, C. Chiu, and S.A. Clough, et al. 2007.Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 88, no. 2:177-190.PNNL-SA-47822.