Performance of a reconfigured atmospheric general circulation model at low resolution

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 712-728

  Wen, Xinyu ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^b   Wang, Shaowu ^b   Wang, Bin ^b   Wan, Hui ^b   Li, Jian ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; GAMIL L; GCM; Model validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149128858     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-007-0712-7     Document Type: Article

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