Improving climate sensitivity of deep lakes within a regional climate model and its impact on simulated climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2886-2911

  Bennington, Val ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Holman, Kathleen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE; LAKES; MIXING; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; COUPLED SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; THEORETICAL PHYSICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; LAKE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898035741     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00110.1     Document Type: Article

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