Evaluation of weather noise and its role in climate model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3766-3784

  Chen, Hua ^a   Schneider, Edwin K ^a,b   Kirtman, Ben P ^c   Colfescu, Ioana ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; FORCED RESPONSE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; PERFECT MODEL;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; NOISE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878990837     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00292.1     Document Type: Article

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