Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6277-6291

  Bryan, Frank O ^a   Tomas, Robert ^a   Dennis, John M ^a   Chelton, Dudley B ^b   Loeb, Norman G ^c   Mcclean, Julie L ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ALL-SKY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMULATED RESPONSE; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE STRESS; SURFACE WIND STRESS; SURFACE WINDS; TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; WIND STRESS;

EID: 78649686734     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3665.1     Document Type: Article

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