Implementation of the Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model 2 (QTCM2): Global simulations and convection sensitivity to free tropospheric moisture

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Lintner, Benjamin R ^a   Bellon, Gilles ^b   Sobel, Adam H ^c,d,e   Kim, Daehyun ^c   Neelin, J David ^f  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; LASERS; MOISTURE; SEPARATION; TROPOSPHERE;

CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL SIMULATION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MODEL SENSITIVITY; MOISTURE GRADIENT; MOISTURE PROFILES; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84871463502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012MS000174     Document Type: Article

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