Modifications to atmospheric physical parameterisations aimed at improving SST simulations in the ACCESS coupled model

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 233-247

  Sun, Zhian ^a   Franklin, Charmaine ^a   Zhou, Xiaobing ^a   Ma, Yimin ^a   Okely, Patricia ^a   Bi, Daohua ^a   Dix, Martin ^a   Hirst, Anthony C ^a   Shonk, J K P ^b   Puri, Kamal ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84882385784     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.015     Document Type: Article

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