Effects of vertical resolution and nonorographic gravity wave drag on the simulated climate in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 357-383

  Richter, Jadwiga H ^a   Solomon, Abraham ^b   Bacmeister, Julio T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; climate modeling; general circulation model; global circulation model; modeling; vertical resolution

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LOWER STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NONOROGRAPHIC GRAVITY WAVE DRAG; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84904860175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000303     Document Type: Article

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