Global radiative-convective equilibrium in the community atmosphere model, version 5

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2183-2197

  Reed, Kevin A ^a   Medeiros, Brian ^a   Bacmeister, Julio T ^a   Lauritzen, Peter H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Convective parameterization; Convective scale processes; General circulation models; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE-SCALE PROCESS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84943780744     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0268.1     Document Type: Article

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