The statistics and structure of subseasonal midlatitude variability in NASA GSFC GCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3294-3316

  Robinson, Dennis P ^a   Black, Robert X ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMS); SEASONAL VARIABILITY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 26844447776     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3450.1     Document Type: Article

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