A new synoptic scale resolving global climate simulation using the Community Earth System Model

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1065-1094

  Small, R Justin ^a   Bacmeister, Julio ^a   Bailey, David ^a   Baker, Allison ^a   Bishop, Stuart ^a   Bryan, Frank ^a   Caron, Julie ^a   Dennis, John ^a   Gent, Peter ^a   Hsu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Jochum, Markus ^b   Lawrence, David ^a   Muñoz, Ernesto ^a   Dinezio, Pedro ^c   Scheitlin, Tim ^a   Tomas, Robert ^a   Tribbia, Joseph ^a   Tseng, Yu Heng ^a   Vertenstein, Mariana ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

CESM; climate modeling; high resolution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CESM; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OCEANIC FRONT; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 85027954106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000363     Document Type: Article

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