GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 643-674

  Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Broccoli, Anthony J ^b   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a   Balaji, V ^a   Beesley, John A ^c   Cooke, William F ^a,d   Dixon, Keith W ^a   Dunne, John ^a   Dunne, K A ^e   Durachta, Jeffrey W ^a,d   Findell, Kirsten L ^a   Ginoux, Paul ^a   Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a   Gordon, C T ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Gudgel, Rich ^a   Harrison, Matthew J ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a   Hemler, Richard S ^a   Horowitz, Larry W ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a,g   Knutson, Thomas R ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^f   Langenhorst, Amy R ^a,d   Lee, Hyun Chul ^a,d   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a   Lu, Jian ^c   Malyshev, Sergey L ^a   Milly, P C D ^e   Ramaswamy, V ^a   Russell, Joellen ^a   Schwarzkopf, M Daniel ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^a   Sirutis, Joseph J ^a   Spelman, Michael J ^a   Stern, William F ^a   Winton, Michael ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Wyman, Bruce ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^d   Zhang, Rong ^a   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RS Information Systems   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; INTERANNUAL FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 33645219567     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3629.1     Document Type: Article

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