Systematic model error: The impact of increased horizontal resolution versus improved stochastic and deterministic parameterizations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4946-4962

  Berner, J ^a   Jung, T ^b   Palmer, T N ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Model errors

Indexed keywords

BIAS; COUPLED WAVES; DYNAMICAL CORE; EXTRATROPICS; FORCINGS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL REFINEMENT; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POSTERIORI; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; STOCHASTICITY; SUBGRID SCALE; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; SYSTEMATIC MODELS; THREE MODELS; UNRESOLVED SCALE; ZONAL FLOWS;

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84862195046     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00297.1     Document Type: Article

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