Stratospheric variability in twentieth-century CMIP5 simulations of the met office climate model: High top versus low top

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1595-1606

  Osprey, Scott M ^a   Gray, Lesley J ^a   Hardiman, Steven C ^b   Butchart, Neal ^b   Hinton, Tim J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Middle atmosphere; Model evaluation performance; Quasibiennial oscillation; Stratospheric circulation; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TROPICAL VARIABILITY;

TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874809561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00147.1     Document Type: Article

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