The community climate system model version 4

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 4973-4991

  Gent, Peter R ^a   Danabasoglu, Gokhan ^a   Donner, Leo J ^b   Holland, Marika M ^a   Hunke, Elizabeth C ^c   Jayne, Steve R ^d   Lawrence, David M ^a   Neale, Richard B ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^e   Vertenstein, Mariana ^a   Worley, Patrick H ^f   Yang, Zong Liang ^g   Zhang, Minghua ^h  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Convection; Madden Julian oscillation; Meridional overturning circulation; Model evaluation performance; Sea ice; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERE COMPONENTS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; DEEP CONVECTION; FORCINGS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FULLY-COUPLED; GULF STREAM; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; LONG WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA-ICE COMPONENTS; STANDARD ATMOSPHERES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; UPWELLING REGION; WATER STORAGE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 79958294849     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1     Document Type: Article

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