Improvement of the GEOS-5 AGCM upon updating the air-sea roughness parameterization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Garfinkel, C I ^a   Molod, A M ^b,c   Oman, L D ^b   Song, I S ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; NASA; PARAMETERIZATION;

AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SURFACE WINDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EOS; NSCAT; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 80053261744     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048802     Document Type: Article

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