Techniques for asynchronous and periodically synchronous coupling of atmosphere and ocean models: Part I: General strategy and application to the cyclo-stationary case

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 313-323

  Sausen, Robert ^a   Voss, Reinhard ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AOGCM; ASYNCHRONOUS; ASYNCHRONOUS COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BLU ANNUAL CYCLE; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN MODEL; ENERGY BALANCE MODEL; GCM; METHOD COMPARISON; PERIODICALLY-SYNCHRONOUS; SYNCHRONOUS COUPLING;

EID: 0029768512     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00231105     Document Type: Article

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