Simulations of tropospheric joint distributions in the UW θ-σ model and CCM2

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 865-868

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONTINUUM;

TROPOSPHERE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODEL; JOINT DISTRIBUTION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; COORDINATE MODELS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TRACE CONSTITUENTS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

EID: 0031111799     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00753     Document Type: Article

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