The low-resolution CCSM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2545-2566

  Yeager, Stephen G ^a   Shields, Christine A ^a   Large, William G ^a   Hack, James J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL VERSION 3 (CCSM3); MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33745063097     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3744.1     Document Type: Article

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