Integration of a prognostic sea surface skin temperature scheme into weather and climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Brunke, Michael A ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Misra, Vasubandhu ^b   Beljaars, Anton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 58249089817     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010607     Document Type: Article

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