Improved Atlantic winter blocking in a climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Copsey, Dan ^a   Gordon, Chris ^a   Harris, Chris ^a   Hinton, Tim ^a   Keeley, Sarah ^b   O'Neill, Alan ^b   Roberts, Malcolm ^a   Williams, Keith ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; KEY ELEMENTS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84055182926     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049573     Document Type: Article

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