An introduction to the coupled model FGOALS1.1-s and its performance in East Asia

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1131-1142

  Bao, Qing ^a   Wu, Guo Xiong ^a   Liu, Yi Min ^a   Yang, Jing ^b   Wang, Zai Zhi ^c   Zhou, Tian Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

climatological mean state; East Asian Summer Monsoon; ENSO; interannual variability; ocean atmosphere land model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955782915     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9177-1     Document Type: Article

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