A Nine-layer Atmospheric General Circulation Model and Its Performance

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Zhao, Yucheng ^a   Li, Weiping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Interannual variability; Numerical simulation; Sensitivity experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742543316     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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