Climate sensitivity and cloud response of a GCM with a superparameterization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Wyant, Matthew C ^a   Khairoutdinov, Marat ^b   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646457563     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025464     Document Type: Article

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