Global energy and water balance: Characteristics from finite-volume atmospheric model of the IAP/LASG (FAMIL1)

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Zhou, Linjiong ^a,b   Bao, Qing ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Wang, Wei Chyung ^c   Wang, Xiaocong ^a   He, Bian ^a   Yu, Haiyang ^a   Li, Jiandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

AGCM; energy balance; interactions of energy and water; water balance

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

AGCM; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENERGY AND WATER BALANCE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STRATOCUMULUS; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 85027956192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000349     Document Type: Article

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