The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3484-3519

  Donner, Leo J ^a   Wyman, Bruce L ^a   Hemler, Richard S ^a   Horowitz, Larry W ^a   Ming, Yi ^a   Zhao, Ming ^b   Golaz, Jean Christophe ^a   Ginoux, Paul ^a   Lin, S J ^a   Schwarzkopf, M Daniel ^a   Austin, John ^b   Alaka, Ghassan ^c   Cooke, William F ^d   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Freidenreich, Stuart M ^a   Gordon, C T ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a   Hurlin, William J ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^e   Knutson, Thomas R ^a   Langenhorst, Amy R ^d   Lee, Hyun Chul ^d   Lin, Yanluan ^b   Magi, Brian I ^f   Malyshev, Sergey L ^f   Milly, P C D ^g   Naik, Vaishali ^d   Nath, Mary J ^a   Pincus, Robert ^h   Ploshay, Jeffrey J ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^a   Seman, Charles J ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^f   Sirutis, Joseph J ^a   Stern, William F ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a   Wilson, R John ^a   Winton, Michael ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a   more..

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UCAR/GFDL   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d High Performance Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Clouds; Coupled models; General circulation models; Model evaluation performance; Parameterization; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE INTERACTION; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLOUD DROPLET ACTIVATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODE; COUPLED MODELS; DROPLET ACTIVATION; DYNAMICAL CORE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH'S SURFACE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FINITE-VOLUME; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL COUPLED MODEL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LAND MODEL; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION RATES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SHALLOW CUMULUS CONVECTION; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY; TROPICAL LANDS; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; DROPS; DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SPHERES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

ARCTIC; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79955044421     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3955.1     Document Type: Article

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