The transpose-AMIP II experiment and its application to the understanding of southern ocean cloud biases in climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3258-3274

  Williams, Keith D ^a   Bodas Salcedo, A ^a   Deque M ^b   Fermepin, S ^c   Medeiros, B ^d   Watanabe, M ^e   Jakob, C ^f   Klein, S A ^g   Senior, C A ^a   Williamson, D L ^d  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HUMIDITY STRUCTURE; INTERNATIONAL MODEL; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MODEL INTER COMPARISONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD; MARINE ATMOSPHERE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84874810896     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00429.1     Document Type: Article

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