Revolutionizing climate modeling with project athena: A multi-institutional, international collaboration

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-245

  Kinter III, J L ^a   Cash, B ^a   Achuthavarier, D ^a   Adams, J ^a   Altshuler, E ^a   Dirmeyer, P ^a   Doty, B ^a   Huang, B ^a   Jin, E K ^a   Marx, L ^a   Manganello, J ^a   Stan, C ^a   Wakefield, T ^a   Palmer, T ^b   Hamrud, M ^b   Jung, T ^b   Miller, M ^b   Towers, P ^b   Wedi, N ^b   Satoh, M ^c   Tomita, H ^d   Kodama, C ^e   Nasuno, T ^e   Oouchi, K ^e   Yamada, Y ^e   Taniguchi, H ^f   Andrews, P ^g   Baer, T ^g   Ezell, M ^g   Halloy, C ^g   John, D ^g   Loftis, B ^g   Mohr, R ^g   Wong, K ^g   more..

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g National Institute for Computational Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE; US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 84875246714     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00043.1     Document Type: Article

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