Sensitivity of sea ice to physical parameterizations in the GISS global climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Liu, Jiping ^a,b   Schmidt, Gavin A ^b   Martinson, Douglas G ^b,c   Rind, David ^a,b   Russell, Gary ^a   Yuan, Xiaojun ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea ice sensitivity to physical parameterizations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL OCEAN; ICE MECHANICS; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038008683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001167     Document Type: Article

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