Reducing climatology bias in an ocean-atmosphere CGCM with improved coupling physics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2344-2360

  Luo, Jing Jia ^a   Masson, Sebastien ^a   Roeckner, Erich ^b   Madec, Gurvan ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZONAL FLOW;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

EID: 26844531256     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3404.1     Document Type: Article

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