A comparison of two numerical weather prediction methods for diagnosing fast-physics errors in climate models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 679, 2014, Pages 517-524

  Klocke, D ^a   Rodwell, M J ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate model error; Fast physics; Initial shock; Initial tendency; Transpose AMIP

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL SHOCK; INITIAL TENDENCY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION METHODS; TRANSPOSE-AMIP;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84896045783     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2172     Document Type: Article

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