The impact of limiting ocean roughness on GEOS-5 AGCM tropical cyclone forecasts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 411-416

  Molod, Andrea ^a,b   Suarez, Max ^b   Partyka, Gary ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; EOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84874859810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053979     Document Type: Article

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