Simulated pre-industrial climate in Bergen Climate Model (version 2): Model description and large-scale circulation features

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-212

  Ottera O H ^a,b   Bentsen, M ^a,b   Bethke, I ^a,b   Kvamsto N G ^b,c  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE PROBLEMS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

BERGEN CLIMATE MODEL; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOBARIC EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE COVER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERGEN; HORDALAND; NORWAY; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77749338059     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2-197-2009     Document Type: Article

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