Atmospheric component of the MPI-M earth system model: ECHAM6

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-172

  Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Giorgetta, Marco ^a   Esch, Monika ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a   Crueger, Traute ^a   Rast, Sebastian ^a   Salzmann, Marc ^a,b   Schmidt, Hauke ^a   Bader, Jürgen ^a   Block, Karoline ^a   Brokopf, Renate ^a   Fast, Irina ^c   Kinne, Stefan ^a   Kornblueh, Luis ^a   Lohmann, Ulrike ^d   Pincus, Robert ^e   Reichler, Thomas ^f   Roeckner, Erich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; climate change; cloud feedback; general circulation model; resolution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSE GASES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MODEL CONFIGURATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RESOLUTION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84876732870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jame.20015     Document Type: Article

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