Contributions of Clouds, Surface Albedos, and Mixed-Phase Ice Nucleation Schemes to Arctic Radiation Biases in CAM5

@article{English2014ContributionsOC,
  title={Contributions of Clouds, Surface Albedos, and Mixed-Phase Ice Nucleation Schemes to Arctic Radiation Biases in CAM5},
  author={Jason M. English and Jennifer E. Kay and Andrew Gettelman and Xiaohong Liu and Yong Wang and Yuying Zhang and H. Chepfer},
  journal={Journal of Climate},
  year={2014},
  volume={27},
  pages={5174-5197}
}
AbstractThe Arctic radiation balance is strongly affected by clouds and surface albedo. Prior work has identified Arctic cloud liquid water path (LWP) and surface radiative flux biases in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), and reductions to these biases with improved mixed-phase ice nucleation schemes. Here, CAM5 net top-of-atmosphere (TOA) Arctic radiative flux biases are quantified along with the contributions of clouds, surface albedos, and new mixed-phase ice nucleation… 
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