Climate entropy budget of the HadCM3 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model and of FAMOUS, its low-resolution version

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 1189-1206

  Pascale, Salvatore ^a   Gregory, Jonathan M ^a,b   Ambaum, Maarten ^a   Tailleux, Rémi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy budget; General circulation models; Material entropy production

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENT MIXING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 78649516115     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0718-1     Document Type: Article

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