The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 configurations

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1487-1520

  Walters, David ^a   Boutle, Ian ^a   Brooks, Malcolm ^a   Melvin, Thomas ^a   Stratton, Rachel ^a   Vosper, Simon ^a   Wells, Helen ^a   Williams, Keith ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a   Allen, Thomas ^a   Bushell, Andrew ^a   Copsey, Dan ^a   Earnshaw, Paul ^a   Edwards, John ^a   Gross, Markus ^a,b   Hardiman, Steven ^a   Harris, Chris ^a   Heming, Julian ^a   Klingaman, Nicholas ^c   Levine, Richard ^a   Manners, James ^a   Martin, Gill ^a   Milton, Sean ^a   Mittermaier, Marion ^a   Morcrette, Cyril ^a   Riddick, Thomas ^a,d   Roberts, Malcolm ^a   Sanchez, Claudio ^a   Selwood, Paul ^a   Stirling, Alison ^a   Smith, Chris ^a   Suri, Dan ^a   Tennant, Warren ^a   Luigi Vidale, Pier ^a   Wilkinson, Jonathan ^a   Willett, Martin ^a   Woolnough, Steve ^c   Xavier, Prince ^a   more..

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND SURFACE; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 85015889548     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1487-2017     Document Type: Article

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