The use of a flow field correction technique for alleviating the North Atlantic cold bias with application to the Kiel Climate Model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1079-1093

  Drews, Annika ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Ding, Hui ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a   Park, Wonsun ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empirical correction techniques; North Atlantic cold bias; North Atlantic Current; Northwest corner

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTHWEST CORNER; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD AIR; ERROR CORRECTION; FLOW FIELD; HEAT FLUX; MODEL TEST; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84938416161     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-015-0853-7     Document Type: Article

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