New results on the thermodynamic properties of the climate system

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2438-2458

  Lucarini, Valerio ^a,b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   Ragone, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate models; Energy transport; Entropy; Radiative fluxes

Indexed keywords

2D FIELDS; APPROXIMATE FORMULAS; AVERAGE RATE; BAROCLINIC; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COMPENSATION MECHANISM; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DATA SETS; ENERGY CYCLE; ENERGY TRANSPORT; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; GAIN INSIGHT; INTERCOMPARISONS; LOWER BOUNDS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MINIMAL REPRESENTATION; MODEL DIAGNOSIS; NEW RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLANETARY SYSTEM; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RADIATIVE FLUXES; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; ENTROPY; HEAT FLUX; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; ENTROPY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 81555209858     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3713.1     Document Type: Article

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