The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2122-2143

  Collins, William D ^a   Bitz, Cecilia M ^b   Blackmon, Maurice L ^a   Bonan, Gordon B ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b   Carton, James A ^c   Chang, Ping ^d   Doney, Scott C ^e   Hack, James J ^a   Henderson, Thomas B ^a   Kiehl, Jeffrey T ^a   Large, William G ^a   McKenna, Daniel S ^a   Santer, Benjamin D ^f   Smith, Richard D ^g  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; OCEAN; SEA ICE DYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 33744490657     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3761.1     Document Type: Article

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