Fluctuation-dissipation supplemented by nonlinearity: A climate-dependent subgrid-scale parameterization in low-order climate models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1833-1846

  Achatz, Ulrich ^a   Löbl, Ulrike ^a,b   Dolaptchiev, Stamen I ^a   Gritsun, Andrey ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE PATH; BAROTROPIC VORTICITY EQUATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION; FLUCTUATION-DISSIPATION THEOREM; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SMALL-SCALE PROCESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PARAMETERIZATION; VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISSIPATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 84880160198     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0229.1     Document Type: Article

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