Inclusion of a katabatic wind correction in a coarse-resolution global coupled climate model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 45-54

  Barthélemy, Antoine ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^a   Mathiot, Pierre ^a   Fichefet, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Climate model; Deep water; Katabatic winds; Sea ice; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC COASTS; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP WATER; FORMATION RATES; KATABATIC WINDS; MEAN ERRORS; MODEL RESULTS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE PROCESS; TIME-SCALES; WIND COMPONENTS; WORLD OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

SEA ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER; KATABATIC FLOW; SALINITY; SEA ICE; TIMESCALE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84859490742     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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