Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-184

  Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Kelley, Max ^a,b   Nazarenko, Larissa ^a   Ruedy, Reto ^a,b   Russell, Gary L ^a   Aleinov, Igor ^a   Bauer, Mike ^a,c   Bauer, Susanne E ^a   Bhat, Maharaj K ^d   Bleck, Rainer ^a,c   Canuto, Vittorio ^a   Chen, Yong Hua ^a,b   Cheng, Ye ^a   Clune, Thomas L ^d   Del Genio, Anthony ^a   De Fainchtein, Rosalinda ^d   Faluvegi, Greg ^a   Hansen, James E ^a,e   Healy, Richard J ^a   Kiang, Nancy Y ^a   Koch, Dorothy ^a,f   Lacis, Andy A ^a   Legrande, Allegra N ^a   Lerner, Jean ^a   Lo, Ken K ^a,b   Matthews, Elaine E ^a   Menon, Surabi ^g   Miller, Ron L ^a   Oinas, Valdar ^a,b   Oloso, Amidu O ^d   Perlwitz, Jan P ^a,c   Puma, Michael J ^a   Putman, William M ^d   Rind, David ^a   Romanou, Anastasia ^a,c   Sato, Makiko ^a,b,e   Shindell, Drew T ^a   Sun, Shan ^a,b   Syed, Rahman A ^d   Tausnev, Nick ^a,b   Tsigaridis, Kostas ^a   Unger, Nadine ^h   Voulgarakis, Apostolos ^a,i   Yao, Mao Sung ^a,b   Zhang, Jinlun ^j   more..

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b Trinnovim LLC ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Climate Systems Research Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Climate model; Climatology; Satellite Era

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OZONE;

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; EOS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84893558445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000265     Document Type: Article

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