Effects of specifying bottom boundary conditions in an ensemble of atmospheric GCM simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 105, Issue D6, 2000, Pages 7295-7315

  Zwiers, Francis W ^a,b   Wang, Xiaolan L ^a   Sheng, Jian ^a,b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING;

EID: 0033784016     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD901050     Document Type: Article

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