The resolution sensitivity of Northern Hemisphere blocking in four 25-km atmospheric global circulation models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 337-358

  Schiemann, Reinhard ^a   Demory, Marie Estelle ^a   Shaffrey, Len C ^a   Strachana, Jane ^a   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^a   Mizielinski, Matthew S ^b,c   Roberts, Malcolm J ^b,c   Matsueda, Mio ^b,c   Wehner, Michael F ^d   Jung, Thomas ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blocking; Climate models; Climate variability; Ensembles; Model evaluation performance; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

BLOCKING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSEMBLES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 85008179599     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0100.1     Document Type: Article

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