A description of a 1260-year control integration with the coupled ECHAM1/LSG general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1525-1543

  Von Storch, Jin Song ^a,e   Kharin, Viatcheslav V ^b   Cubasch, Ulrich ^c   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^d   Schriever, Dierk ^d   Von Storch, Hans ^e   Zorita, Eduardo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c German Climate Computing Center   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT FLUX; SALINE WATER;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; GCM;

EID: 0031177939     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1525:ADOAYC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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