Description and basic evaluation of Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) version 1

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2039-2064

  Ji, D ^a   Wang, L ^a   Feng, J ^a   Wu, Q ^a   Cheng, H ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Yang, J ^a   Dong, W ^a   Dai, Y ^a   Gong, D ^a   Zhang, R H ^b,c   Wang, X ^c   Liu, J ^d   Moore, J C ^a   Chen, D ^e   Zhou, M ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center   (China)

^f Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; UPWELLING; WESTERLY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84907071480     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-2039-2014     Document Type: Article

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