Simulating regime structures in weather and climate prediction models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Dawson, A ^a   Palmer, T N ^a,b   Corti, S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; CLIMATOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; LOW RESOLUTION; MODEL RESOLUTION; NON-GAUSSIAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SECOND MOMENTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STEP CHANGES; WEATHER REGIMES;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOW FIELD; FLOW PATTERN; NUMERICAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84868629213     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053284     Document Type: Article

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