The impact of perturbations to ocean-model parameters on climate and climate change in a coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-343

  Brierley, Chris M ^a,d   Collins, Matthew ^b   Thorpe, Alan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Ensemble prediction; Ocean; Parameter; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; PERTURBATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77949263673     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0486-3     Document Type: Article

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