Assessment of atmosphere-ocean general circulation model simulations of winter northern hemisphere atmospheric blocking

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 95-112

  Vial, Jessica ^a   Osborn, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AOGCMs; Atmospheric blocking; Model evaluation; Northern hemisphere; Winter

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WINTER;

EID: 84863002962     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1177-z     Document Type: Article

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