A simple coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land surface model for climate and paleoclimate studies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1150-1172

  Wang, Zhaomin ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT REGION; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; ZONAL MOISTURE TRANSPORT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0033923211     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1150:ASCAOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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