Present-day atmospheric simulations using GISS ModelE: Comparison to in situ, satellite, and reanalysis data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-192

  Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Ruedy, Reto ^b   Hansen, James E ^b   Aleinov, Igor ^a   Bell, Nadine ^a   Bauer, Mike ^a   Bauer, Susanne ^a   Cairns, Brian ^a   Canuto, Vittorio ^b   Cheng, Ye ^b   Del Genio, Anthony ^b   Faluvegi, Greg ^a   Friend, Andrew D ^c   Hall, Tim M ^b   Hu, Yongyun ^a,f   Kelley, Max ^c   Kiang, Nancy Y ^a   Koch, Dorothy ^a   Lacis, Andy A ^b   Lerner, Jean ^a   Lo, Ken K ^b   Miller, Ron L ^b   Nazarenko, Larissa ^a   Oinas, Valdar ^b   Perlwitz, Jan ^e   Perlwitz, Judith ^a   Rind, David ^b   Romanou, Anastasia ^d   Russell, Gary L ^b   Sato, Makiko ^b   Shindell, Drew T ^b   Stone, Peter H ^e   Sun, Shan ^b,e   Tausnev, Nick ^b   Thresher, Duane ^a,g   Yao, Mao Sung ^b   more..

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d CEA Saclay ^*  (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCUALTION MODEL (GCM); GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES (GISS);

CLIMATOLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33644680703     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3612.1     Document Type: Review

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