Toward the dynamical convergence on the jet stream in aquaplanet AGCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6763-6782

  Lu, Jian ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Leung, L Ruby ^a   Burrows, D Alex ^b   Yang, Qing ^a   Sakaguchi, Koichi ^a   Hagos, Samson ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Climate models; Diagnostics; General circulation models; Mixing; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; DIFFUSION; LIQUID WAVES; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PECLET NUMBER; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN; FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; JET FLOW; JET STREAM; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 84945972761     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00761.1     Document Type: Article

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