Diagnosing the entropy budget of a climate model

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 921-931

  Fraedrich, Klaus ^a,b   Lunkeit, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEXITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENTROPY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 52949113893     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00338.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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