The impact of the time step on the intensity of ITCZ in an aquaplanet GCM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4077-4091

  Mishra, Saroj K ^a   Srinivasan, J ^a   Nanjundiah, Ravi S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CONTROL THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MOISTURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; VAPORS;

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODELS; DYNAMICAL CORES; EULERIAN; INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONES; LAGRANGIAN; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACKS; SCALE PRECIPITATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SURFACE EVAPORATIONS; SURFACE WIND SPEEDS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TIME STEPS;

RAIN;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 57149129466     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2478.1     Document Type: Article

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