Feedbacks in a simple prognostic tropical climate model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2178-2200

  Sherwood, Steven C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032758052     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2178:FIASPT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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