An energy conservation analysis of ocean drift in the CMIP5 global coupled models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1639-1653

  Hobbs, Will ^a   Palmer, Matthew D ^b   Monselesan, Didier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Budgets; Circulation dynamics; Climate models; Climate sensitivity; Conservation equations; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET);

BUDGETS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 84960876143     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0477.1     Document Type: Article

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