On using empirical techniques to optimize the shortwave parameterization scheme of the community atmosphere model version two global climate model

Global climate models (GCM) have been used for nearly two decades now as a tool to investigate and analyze past, present, and future weather and climate. Even though the first several generations of climate models were very simple, today's models are very sophisticated. They use complex param...

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Main Author: Mooring, Raymond Derrell
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6988