A Surface Wave Model for Coupling with Numerical Ocean Circulation Models

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......coupling it to three-dimensional ocean circulation models. The model is based on a paper by...were derived. To be compatible with circulation models and to be numerically economical...with depth-dependent numerical ocean circulation models. Now, as a consequence of (the revised...

general circulation models

A Dictionary of Geography;      101 words ...general circulation models, atmospheric general circulation models, GCMs Computer models which attempt numerically to replicate the general circulation of the atmosphere , such as the GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Model II, the...

FUNDAMENTAL APPROXIMATIONS IN OCEAN MODELING

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  January 1, 2004 ;     425 words ......OF NOTE Conventional ocean general circulation models make two fundamental approximations...ocean), and their effect in general circulation models remains to be explored. On basin...How Sensitive Are Coarse General Circulation Models to Fundamental Approximations in...

Atmosphere-ocean momentum exchange in general circulation models

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......freshwater, at the sea surface. In general circulation models these fluxes are usually parameterized...coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models for climate change studies has resulted...surface shear stress for use in general circulation models. The paper is organized as ...

How Sensitive Are Coarse General Circulation Models to Fundamental...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......estimation and constraining general circulation models (GCMs) in general. However, conventional...computational efficiency in general circulation models and in analytical studies, consist...ocean circulation with ocean general circulation models (OGCMs), there are many problems...

Constraining a North Atlantic Ocean general circulation model with...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......quantitatively combined with ocean general circulation models as a component of systematic model...s function, to constrain general circulation models with transient tracer data. Using...combine these observations with general circulation models (GCMs) in order to improve the ...

General Circulation Model Development

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......is an excellent reference book on atmospheric general circulation models written in honor of Professor Akio Arakawa of the University...Jim McWilliams has a useful overview of oceanic general circulation models. Zeng et al. describe a model based on quasi-equilibrium...

Diagnosing Sources of U.S. Seasonal Forecast Skill

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......simulations with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) forced by observed monthly...1998) and perpetual-mode general circulation models forced with idealized SSTs (Geisler...climate using atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) subjected to observed monthly...

Parameterization of generalized cloud overlap for radiative calculations...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Corsetti, 1987: A fast radiation parameterization for general circulation models. J. Geophys. Res., 92, 1009-1016. -, D. A. Randall, and...economical method for computing radiative transfer in circulation models. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 108, 231-252. Hogan, R.

Influence of ocean-atmosphere interaction on the Arctic oscillation in two...

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......using a hierarchy of experiments made with two general circulation models (GCMs), ranging from climatologically forced atmospheric...Recent ensemble simulations with atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) suggest that the NAO's decadal evolution can be...

The analog method as a simple statistical downscaling technique:...

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......information from integrations of coarse-resolution general circulation models (GCM) with the help of statistical models fitted to present...offer a physical interpretation. 1. Introduction General Circulation Models (GCMs) are one of the most important tools in the study...

Assessing the effect of climate change on river flow using general...

Canadian Water Resources Journal;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the various methods used to integrate outputs of General Circulation Models (GCMs) into hydrological models that are applied at a...mathematical models. One attractive approach is use General Circulation Models (GCMs) to produce future meteorological sequences for...

An Assessment of Intraseasonal Variability from 13-Yr GCM Simulations

Monthly Weather Review;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......assessment of 13-yr simulations of three atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) forced by observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs...focused on assessing variability in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) at seasonal to interannual time frames. Coordinated...

Testing the Annular Mode Autocorrelation Time Scale in Simple Atmospheric...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......proposal for comparing the dynamics of different general circulation models. A simple procedure to compute τ, the e-folding time...numerical schemes of different dynamical cores, general circulation models (GCMs) that integrate the primitive equations with idealized...

Tripleclouds: An Efficient Method for Representing Horizontal Cloud...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Radiation schemes in general circulation models currently make a number of simplifications when...that the radiation balance of the earth in general circulation models (GCMs) is very sensitive to the representation of...