Reference aquaplanet climate in the Community Atmosphere Model, Version 5

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 406-424

  Medeiros, Brian ^a   Williamson, David L ^a   Olson, Jerry G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaplanet; climate modeling

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES;

AQUAPLANET; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; DYNAMICAL CORE; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; GRID-SPACINGS; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; ZONAL MEANS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978322325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000593     Document Type: Article

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