Evaluation of tropical channel refinement using MPAS-A aquaplanet simulations

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1351-1367

  Martini, Matus N ^a,b   Gustafson, William I ^a   O'Brien, Travis A ^c   Ma, Po Lun ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A wider tropical channel converges toward a global high resolution simulation; Refined channels improve the tropics but some biases remain from high latitudes; Tropical channels effectively remove numerical artifacts seen in earlier studies

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

AQUAPLANET; EQUATORIAL CHANNEL; MPAS; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; WRF;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84945464868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000470     Document Type: Article

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