Atmospheric horizontal resolution affects tropical climate variability in coupled models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 730-750

  Navarra, A ^a   Gualdi, S ^a   Masina, S ^a   Behera, S ^b   Luo, J J ^b   Masson, S ^b   Guilyardi, E ^c   Delecluse, P ^c   Yamagata, T ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 40849147110     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1406.1     Document Type: Article

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