CAUSES: Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface

Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Shaocheng Xie1, Cyril Julien Morcrette2, Kwinten Van Weverberg3, Yunyan Zhang4 and Min-Hui Lo5, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Ghent University, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (5)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan