Systematic optimisation and climate simulation of FAMOUS, a fast version of HadCM3

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 189-204

  Jones, Chris ^a   Gregory, Jonathan ^a,b   Thorpe, Robert ^a   Cox, Peter ^c   Murphy, James ^a   Sexton, David ^a   Valdes, Paul ^d  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RESOLUTION;

EID: 26444577102     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0027-2     Document Type: Article

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