Systematic energy errors and the tendency toward canonical equilibrium in atmospheric circulation models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 887-904

  Frederiksen, Jorgen S ^a   Dix, Martin R ^a   Kepert, Steven M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA EFFECT; CANONICAL EQUILIBRIUM; GCM; KINETIC ENERGY;

ADIABATIC INVARIANTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC MODELS; BETA-EFFECTS; CANONICAL EQUILIBRIUM; ENERGY ERROR; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENSTROPHY; ENTROPY MAXIMIZATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA; QUALITATIVE BEHAVIOR; SMALL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL KINETIC ENERGY; ZONAL FLOWS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROPS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SPECTROSCOPY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

KINETIC ENERGY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0030456212     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0887:SEEATT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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