Historical evolution of global and regional surface air temperature simulated by FGOALS-s2 and FGOALS-g2: How reliable are the model results?

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 638-657

  Zhou, Tianjun ^a,b   Song, Fengfei ^a,c   Chen, Xiaolong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

20th century historical simulation; FGOALS; global scale; hemispheric scale; regional scale; warming trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876424523     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2205-1     Document Type: Article

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