Joint distributions of potential vorticity and inert trace constituent in CCM2 and UW θ-σ model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2525-2528

  Zapotocny, Tom H ^a   Lenzen, Allen J ^a   Johnson, Donald R ^a   Reames, Fred M ^a   Politowicz, Philip A ^a   Schaack, Todd K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTICITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; INERT GASES; SIMULATION; TRACE ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SIGMA COORDINATE MODELS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; TRACE CONSTITUENTS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

CLIMATE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

GLOBAL HYBRID ISENTROPIC SIGMA; INERT TRACE CONSTITUENT; SIGMA COORDINATE MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CCM2; OZONE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

EID: 0030234091     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02298     Document Type: Article

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