Consequences of systematic model drift in DYNAMO MJO hindcasts with SP-CAM and CAM5

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1051-1074

  Hannah, Walter M ^a,b   Maloney, Eric D ^c   Pritchard, Michael S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CAM5; DYNAMO; hindcast; MJO; SP CAM; superparameterization

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; DC GENERATORS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE METERS;

CAM5; HINDCASTS; MJO; MOISTURE BUDGET; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION; SYNOPTIC-EDDY ACTIVITY; SYSTEMATIC MODELING;

CAMS;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; FIELD SURVEY; HINDCASTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WIND FIELD;

EID: 84944930772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000423     Document Type: Article

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