Simulation of the global hydrological cycle in the CCSM Community Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3): Mean features

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2199-2221

  Hack, James J ^a   Caron, Julie M ^a   Yeager, Stephen G ^a   Oleson, Keith W ^a   Holland, Marika M ^a   Truesdale, John E ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

GLOBAL HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER CYCLE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

EID: 33645239547     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3755.1     Document Type: Article

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