GFDL's ESM2 global coupled climate-carbon earth system models. Part I: Physical formulation and baseline simulation characteristics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6646-6665

  Dunne, John Patrick ^a   John, Jasmin G ^a   Adcroft, Alistair J ^b   Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Hallberg, Robert W ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^b   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a   Cooke, William ^c   Dunne, Krista A ^d   Harrison, Matthew J ^a   Krasting, John P ^a   Malyshev, Sergey L ^b   Milly, P C D ^d   Phillipps, Peter J ^a   Sentman, Lori T ^a   Samuels, Bonita L ^a   Spelman, Michael J ^c   Winton, Michael ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Zadeh, Niki ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DRC   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models; General circulation models; Isopycnal coordinates

Indexed keywords

CARBON DYNAMICS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTENT VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; DEPTH STRUCTURE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODELING; EARTH SYSTEMS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GYRE CIRCULATION; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOPYCNAL COORDINATES; LONG TERM DRIFT; MIXED LAYER; MODULAR OCEAN MODEL; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN LAYERS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; VERTICAL PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); ENTHALPY; MODELS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GYRE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867671008     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00560.1     Document Type: Article

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