Analysis of the model climate sensitivity spread forced by mean sea surface: Temperature biases

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7147-7162

  Dommenget, Dietmar ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate sensitivity; Coupled models; General circulation models; Model errors

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CONTROL STATE; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; COUPLED MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LARGE PARTS; MEAN SEA SURFACES; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SLAB OCEAN MODELS; TEMPERATURE BIAS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867681945     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00600.1     Document Type: Article

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