Regional assessment of the parameter-dependent performance of CAM4 in simulating tropical clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yuying ^a   Xie, Shaocheng ^a   Covey, Curt ^a   Lucas, Donald D ^a   Gleckler, Peter ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a   Tannahill, John ^a   Doutriaux, Charles ^a   Klein, Richard ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE REGIME; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; DEFAULT MODEL; LATIN HYPERCUBE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETER VALUES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864479965     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052184     Document Type: Article

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