Tropopause level Rossby wave breaking in the Northern Hemisphere: A feature-based validation of the ECHAM5-HAM climate model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3073-3082

  Beguin A ^a,d   Martius, O ^a,b   Sprenger, M ^a   Spichtinger, P ^a,c   Folini, D ^a   Wernli, H ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate model validation; ECHAM5; ECHAM5 HAM; Jet streams; Model resolution; Potential vorticity; Rossby wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ECHAM5; ECHAM5-HAM; JET STREAMS; MODEL RESOLUTION; MODEL VALIDATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE MODELS; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; VORTICITY;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; JET STREAM; MODEL VALIDATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOPAUSE; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 84887617960     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3631     Document Type: Article

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