Accelerating progress in global atmospheric model development through improved parameterizations: Challenges, opportunities, and strategies

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 869-875

  Jakob, Christian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; IMPROVED MODELS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL FORMULATION; OVERALL-MODEL; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROCESS-ORIENTED; SCIENTIFIC FOOTING; SEASONAL PREDICTION; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77955629985     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2898.1     Document Type: Article

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