Global climatological features in a simulation using the CPTEC-COLA AGCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2965-2988

  Cavalcanti, Iracema F A ^a   Marengo, José A ^a   Satyamurty, Prakki ^a   Nobre, Carlos A ^a   Trosnikov, Igor ^a   Bonatti, José Paulo ^a   Manzi, Antonio Ocimar ^a   Tarasova, Tatiana ^a   Pezzi, Luciano P ^a   D'Almeida, Cassiano ^a   Sampaio, Gilvan ^a   Castro, Christopher C ^a   Sanches, Marcos B ^a   Camargo, Hélio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANOMALY CORRELATION; ENERGY BUDGET ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 0036863028     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<2965:GCFIAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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