Improved simulation of the South Asian summer monsoon in a coupled GCM with a more realistic ocean mixed layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1681-1690

  Song, Yajuan ^a   Qiao, Fangli ^a   Song, Zhenya ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate models; Mixing

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; BAY OF BENGAL; DIFFERENTIAL HEATING; INDIAN OCEAN; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; MIXING PROCESS; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NON-BREAKING WAVES; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; OCEAN MIXING; OCEAN RESEARCH; PARAMETERIZED; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SUMMER MONSOON; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; MIXING; MOISTURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUMMER;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84864622090     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0235.1     Document Type: Article

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