The Met Office Global Coupled model 2.0 (GC2) configuration

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1509-1524

  Williams, K D ^a   Harris, C M ^a   Bodas Salcedo, A ^a   Camp, J ^a   Comer, R E ^a   Copsey, D ^a   Fereday, D ^a   Graham, T ^a   Hill, R ^a   Hinton, T ^a   Hyder, P ^a   Ineson, S ^a   Masato, G ^b   Milton, S F ^a   Roberts, M J ^a   Rowell, D P ^a   Sanchez, C ^a   Shelly, A ^a   Sinha, B ^c   Walters, D N ^a   West, A ^a   Woollings, T ^d   Xavier, P K ^a   more..

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84930211380     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1509-2015     Document Type: Article

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