On the Correspondence between short- and long-time-scale systematic errors in CAM4/CAM5 for the year of tropical convection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7937-7955

  Xie, Shaocheng ^a   Ma, Hsi Yen ^a   Boyle, James S ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a   Zhang, Yuying ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Model errors; Model evaluation performance; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED RADIATION; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CONVERGENCE ZONES; EXTRATROPICAL; HINDCASTS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LEADTIME; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; MOIST PROCESS; PARAMETERIZED; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

CLIMATE MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84869795715     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00134.1     Document Type: Article

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