Do GCMs predict the climate ... or macroweather?

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 439-454

  Lovejoy, S ^a   Schertzer, D ^b   Varon, D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CLIMATE FORCINGS; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; SCALE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; MICROCLIMATE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NONLINEARITY; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84893431995     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-4-439-2013     Document Type: Article

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