The ECMWF model climate: Recent progress through improved physical parametrizations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1145-1160

  Jung, T ^a   Balsamo, G ^a   Bechtold, P ^a   Beljaars, A C M ^a   Kohler M ^a   Miller, M J ^a   Morcrette, J J ^a   Orr, A ^a,c   Rodwell, M J ^a   Tompkins, A M ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Blocking; Convectively coupled waves; Precipitation; Seamless approach; Synoptic activity; Systematic error; Tropical extratropical interaction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BLOCKING; COUPLED WAVES; PRECIPITATION; SEAMLESS APPROACH; SYNOPTIC ACTIVITY; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956201046     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.634     Document Type: Article

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