Toward mitigating the double ITCZ problem in NCAR CCSM3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Guang J ^a   Wang, Houjun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING FEEDBACK; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; INTER-TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646461889     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025229     Document Type: Article

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