Uniformly rotating global radiative-convective equilibrium in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1938-1955

  Reed, Kevin A ^a,b   Chavas, Daniel R ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric general circulation model; idealized model; radiative convective equilibrium; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IDEALIZED MODELS; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

AGGREGATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM SURGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84959488002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000519     Document Type: Article

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