The effect of indiscriminate nudging time on large and small scales in regional climate modelling: Application to the Mediterranean basin

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 170-182

  Salameh, Tamara ^a   Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Large small scale perturbations; Potential vorticity; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

DOWN-SCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE PHENOMENA; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TOY MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77249127398     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.518     Document Type: Article

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