Influence of a stochastic moist convective parameterization on tropical climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3691-3694

  Lin, Johnny Wei Bing ^a   Neelin, J David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOISTURE TRANSFER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TROPICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS;

AUTOCORRELATION TIME; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGHER ORDER MOMENTS; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; RANDOM CONTRIBUTIONS; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY; STOCHASTIC MOIST CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

EID: 0034351920     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011964     Document Type: Article

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