The Specified Chemistry Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (SC-WACCM)

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 883-901

  Smith, K L ^a   Neely, R R ^b,c   Marsh, D R ^c   Polvani, L M ^a,d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate variability; climatology; model development; stratosphere resolving model; stratospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; COST REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; WHOLE ATMOSPHERE COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COUPLING; MESOSPHERE; MODEL VALIDATION; OZONE; SEA ICE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84921832412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000346     Document Type: Article

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