Scale interactions on diurnal to seasonal timescales and their relevance to model systematic errors

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 139-156

  Slingo, Julia ^a   Inness, Peter ^a   Neale, Richard ^a   Woolnough, Steven ^a   Yang, Gui Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Diurnal cycle; MJO; Ocean atmosphere interaction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0141693062     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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