North Atlantic wintertime intraseasonal variability and its sensitivity to GCM horizontal resolution

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 573-595

  Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a   Déqué, Michel ^c   Valero, Francisco ^b   Stephenson, David B ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; SEASONALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032452201     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v50i5.14560     Document Type: Article

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