A view of earth system model development

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Wang, Bin ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical process; Global warming; Past climate change; Physical climate system

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; EARTH SCIENCE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 63149145504     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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