Recovery of atmospheric flow statistics in a general circulation model without nonlinear eddy-eddy interactions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  O'Gorman, Paul A ^a   Schneider, Tapio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW STATISTICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOMENT EQUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; EDDY COVARIANCE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 38949185321     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031779     Document Type: Article

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