Climate simulation and change in the brazilian climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6716-6732

  Nobre, Paulo ^a   Siqueira, Leo S P ^a   De Almeida, Roberto A F ^a   Malagutti, Marta ^a   Giarolla, Emanuel ^a   Castelã O, Guilherme P ^a   Bottino, Marcus J ^b   Kubota, Paulo ^a   Figueroa, Silvio N ^a   Costa, Mabel C ^a   Baptista Jr, Manoel ^a   Irber Jr, Luiz ^a   Marcondes, Gabriel G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b Center for Monitoring and Early Warnings of Natural Disasters ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIMULATION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; OCEANIC TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84883167407     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00580.1     Document Type: Article

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