New gravity wave treatments for GISS climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3989-4002

  Geller, Marvin A ^a   Zhou, Tiehan ^b   Ruedy, Reto ^c   Aleinov, Igor ^b   Nazarenko, Larissa ^b   Tausnev, Nikolai L ^c   Sun, Shan ^c,d,e   Kelley, Maxwell ^b   Cheng, Ye ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Gravity waves; Intertropical concergence zone; Orographic effects; Temperature; Wind

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; INTERTROPICAL CONCERGENCE ZONE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; OROGRAPHIC GRAVITY WAVES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RAYLEIGH; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE INTERACTIONS; WAVE TREATMENT; ZONAL MEANS;

GRAVITY WAVES; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; USER INTERFACES; WIND;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 80052856763     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4013.1     Document Type: Article

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