Global diagnostic energetics of five state-of-the-art climate models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1767-1794

  Marques, C A F ^a   Rocha, A ^a   Corte Real, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atmospheric energetics; Climate models; Reanalysis; Wave number

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGETICS; JET FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 79954574733     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0828-9     Document Type: Article

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