The brewer-dobson circulation in a changing climate: Impact of the model configuration

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1437-1455

  Bunzel, Felix ^a   Schmidt, Hauke ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; CHANGING CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL DIFFUSIONS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; WAVE REFLECTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84876713937     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0215.1     Document Type: Article

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