Crucial experiments in climate science

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-352

  Navarra, A ^a   Kinter III, J L ^b   Tribbia, J ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COMPLEX COMPUTING; COMPUTING SYSTEM; DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; SCIENTIFIC METHOD;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77951570298     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2712.1     Document Type: Article

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