The relationship between tropical warm pool precipitation, sea surface temperature, and large-scale vertical motion in IPCC AR4 models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-194

  Martin, Elinor R ^a,b   Schumacher, Courtney ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate models; Convective parameterization; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REDUCED FREQUENCY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UNCOUPLED MODELS; VERTICAL CIRCULATION; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WARM POOLS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84855816431     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0104.1     Document Type: Article

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