Climate modeling

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 33, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-17

  Donner, Leo J ^a   Large, William G ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Dynamical core; Earth system model; General circulation model; Parameterization; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICAL CORE; EARTH-SYSTEM MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); MODEL STRUCTURES; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 68049126436     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.33.020707.160752     Document Type: Article

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