No access the impact of horizontal resolution on north american monsoon gulf of california moisture surges in a suite of coupled global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 7911-7936

  Pascale, Salvatore ^a   Bordoni, Simona ^a   Kapnick, Sarah B ^b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^b   Jia, Liwei ^c   Delworth, Thomas L ^b   Underwood, Seth ^b   Anderson, Whit ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Climate models; Hydrometeorology; Intraseasonal variability; Monsoons; Waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MECHANICAL WAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WAVES;

COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MONSOONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84995388266     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0199.1     Document Type: Article

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