Improvements in a half degree atmosphere/land version of the CCSM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 819-833

  Gent, Peter R ^a   Yeager, Stephen G ^a   Neale, Richard B ^a   Levis, Samuel ^a   Bailey, David A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CCSM; Climate; Projections; Resolution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 77951880275     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0614-8     Document Type: Article

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