What determines meridional heat transport in climate models?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3832-3850

  Donohoe, Aaron ^a   Battisti, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Climate models; Cloud radiative effects; Energy budget balance; Energy transport; Ensembles

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENERGY TRANSPORT; ENSEMBLES; RADIATIVE EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT TRANSFER; POLES; SUN;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY BUDGET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84856952160     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00257.1     Document Type: Article

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