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Several Possible Causes Examined
For the South Carolina Case
Initial snow cover analysis -- ruled out
Post-processor problems -- ruled out
Long-wave radiation problems -- ruled out
Cloud problems -- mostly ruled out since there were no clouds in model or real-world in 1/04/2002 case -- But need modification of gridscale scheme to infer cloud fractions for use in longwave & shortwave radiation
Surface layer exchange problems -- read on