Sources of CAM3 temperature bias during northern winter from diagnostic study of the temperature bias equation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1411-1427

  Pan, Lin Lin ^a   Grotjahn, Richard ^a   Tribbia, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; CAM3; Diabatic heating; Northern hemisphere storm tracks; Temperature bias

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649316072     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0608-6     Document Type: Article

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