Sensitivity of simulated climate to horizontal and vertical resolution in the ECHAM5 atmosphere model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3771-3791

  Roeckner, Erich ^a   Brokopf, R ^a   Esch, M ^a   Giorgetta, Marco A ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^a   Kornblueh, L ^a   Manzini, E ^b   Schlese, U ^a   Schulzweida, U ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746921939     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3824.1     Document Type: Article

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