Parameterization of cloud-radiation processes in the UCLA general circulation model From: Journal of Climate | Date: October 15, 2003| Author: | Copyright American Meteorological Society Oct 15, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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A contemporary radiation parameterization scheme has been implemented in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), atmospheric GCM (AGCM). This scheme is a combination of the delta-four-stream method for solar flux transfer and the delta-two-and-four-stream method for thermal infrared flux transfer. Both methods have been demonstrated to be computationally efficient and at the same time highly accurate in comparison with exact radiative transfer computations. The correlated-k distribution method for radiative transfer has been used to represent gaseous absorption in ...

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