The Antarctic climate of the UKMO Unified Model

Antarctic Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 115-122

  Cattle, Howard ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climatology; coreless winter; GCM; katabatic winds; mass balance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KATABATIC WIND; MASS BALANCE; UKMO; UNIFIED MODEL;

EID: 0028255224     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102094000143     Document Type: Article

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