Response of climate simulation to a new convective parameterization in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model (CCM3)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2097-2115

  Zhang, Guang J ^a   Kiehl, Jeffrey T ^b   Rasch, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric convection; Climate modeling; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0032453659     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-11.8.2097     Document Type: Article

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