Improved Winter European Atmospheric Blocking Frequencies in High-Resolution Global Climate Simulations

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 2615-2634

  Davini, P ^a,b   Corti, S ^c   D'Andrea, F ^a   Riviere G ^a   von Hardenberg, J ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

blocking; EC Earth; GCMs; high resolution

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL WAVES;

BLOCKING; GCMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; BAROCLINIC MODE; BREAKING WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; JET STREAM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PLANETARY WAVE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 85034263602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001082     Document Type: Article

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