Distributed ocean-atmosphere modeling and sensitivity to the coupling flux precision: The CATHODe project

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1035-1053

  Cassou, C ^a   Noyret, P ^b   Sevault, E ^c   Thual, O ^a,d   Terray, L ^a   Beaucourt, D ^b   Imbard, M ^e  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MODELING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GCM;

EID: 0032049548     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1035:DOAMAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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