High atmospheric horizontal resolution eliminates the wind-driven coastal warm bias in the southeastern tropical Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 10,455-10,462

  Milinski, Sebastian ^a,b   Bader, Jürgen ^a,c   Haak, Helmuth ^a   Siongco, Angela Cheska ^a   Jungclaus, Johann H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

coastal orography; southeastern tropical Atlantic; SST bias

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND STRESS;

COASTAL OROGRAPHY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST BIAS; SURFACE WIND STRESS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OROGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL REGION; WIND STRESS;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84991107261     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070530     Document Type: Article

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