A theoretical framework for energy and momentum consistency in subgrid-scale parameterization for climate models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3095-3114

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Shepherd, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; CLIMATE MODEL; CONSERVATION LAW; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; FLUX CONVERGENCE; MESOSCALE; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; PLANETARY SCALE; SPATIAL HOMOGENEITY; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBGRID SCALE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLUXES; HEATING; MOMENTUM;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETERIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 73549113809     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3051.1     Document Type: Article

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