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 Zhang1 and Min-Hui Lo4, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Ghent University, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium, (4)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan