The climatology of the middle atmosphere in a vertically extended version of the met office's climate model. Part II: Variability

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3637-3651

  Osprey, Scott M ^a   Gray, Lesley J ^b   Hardiman, Steven C ^c   Butchart, Neal ^c   Bushell, Andrew C ^c   Hinton, Tim J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climatology; Middle atmosphere; Quasibiennial oscillation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL; EXTENDED VERSIONS; EXTRATROPICAL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE FILTERING; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; STRATOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATOLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WARMING;

EID: 77955536522     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3338.1     Document Type: Article

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