The CSIRO Mk3L climate system model version 1.0-Part 2: Response to external forcings

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 649-682

  Phipps, S J ^a,b,c,d   Rotstayn, L D ^e   Gordon, H B ^e   Roberts, J L ^b,c,f   Hirst, A C ^e   Budd, W F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DESERTIFICATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 84861312442     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-5-649-2012     Document Type: Article

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