Date:09/01/1994
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Zapotocny, T.H, D.R. Johnson, F.M. Reames
Title:Development and initial test of the University of Wisconsin Global Isentropic-Sigma model
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev, 122, 2160-2178
Abstract:The description of a global version of the University of Wisconsin (UW) hybrid isentropica-sigma (thes-sigma) model and the results from an initial numerical weather prediction experiment are presented in this paper. The main objectives of this initial test are to 1) discuss theta-sigma model development and computer requirements,
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Date:07/01/1989
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Adang, T.C., R.L. Gall
Title:Structure and dynamics of the Arizona monsoon boundary
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 1423-1438
Abstract:The Arizona Monsoon Boundary is defined as the boundary separating two distinctly different air masses over Mexico and the adjacent Pacific during the summer
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Date:11/01/1986
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Donner, L.J.
Title:Sensitivity of the thermal balance in a general circulation model to a parameterization for cumulus convection with radiatively interactive clouds
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 2277-2288
Abstract:The dependence of the thermal balance of a general circulation model on the parameterization of cumulus convection is investigated. Incorporation of a Kuo-type cumulus parameterization into the NCAR
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Date:04/01/1995
Subject:(32) General Circulation
(12) Climate
Author:Gleckler, P.J., D.A. Randall, G. Boer, R. Colman, M. Dix, V. Galin, M. Helfand, J. Kiehl, A. Kitoh, W. Lau, X.-Y. Liang, V. Lykossov, B. McAvaney, K. Miyakoda, S. Planton, W. Stern
Title:Cloud-radiative effects on implied oceanic energy transports as simulated by atmospheric general circulation models
Publication:Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 791-794
Abstract:This paper summarizes the ocean surface net energy flux simulated by fifteen atmospheric general circulation models constrained by realistically-varying sea surface temperatures and sea ice as part of the Atmospheric Modl Intercomparison Project.
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Date:07/15/1987
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:McFarlane, N.A.
Title:The effect of orographically excited gravity wave drag on the general circulation of the lower stratosphere and troposphere
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1775-1800
Abstract:The influence of large-scale momentum sinks, due to breaking of orographically excited gravity waves on the Northern Hemisphere wintertime circulation of the troposphere and lower stratosphere is examined
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Date:02/01/1988
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Rind, D. R. Suozzo and N.K. Balachandran
Title:The GISS Global Climate-Middle Atmosphere Model. Part II: Model variability due to interactions between planetary waves, the mean circulation and gravity wave drag
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 371-386
Abstract:The variability which arises in the GISS Global Climate-Middle Atmosphere Model on two time scales is reviewed: interannual standard deviations, derived from the five-year control run, and intraseasonal variability as exemplified by stratospheric
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Date:11/01/1988
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Sud, Y., A. Molod
Title:The roles of dry convection, cloud-radiation feedback processes and the influence of recent improvements in the parameterization of convection in the GLA GCM
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 2366-2387
Abstract:The sensitivity of the simulated July circulation to modifications in the parameterizaiton of dry and moist convection, evaporation from falling raindrops, and cloud-radiation interaction is examined with the GLA (Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres)
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Date:11/01/1988
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Sud, Y.C., A. Molod
Title:A GCM simulation study of the influence of Saharan evapotranspiration and surface-albedo anomalies on July circulaiton and rainfall
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 2388-2400
Abstract:The GLA (Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres) GCM (general circulation model) was employed to investigate anomalies that could results from the hypothetical semiarid vegetation over North Africa (including the Sahara desert) on its July circulation and rainfall.
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Date:01/01/1982
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:White, G.H.
Title:An observational study of the northern Hemisphere extratropical summertime general circulation
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 24-40
Abstract:An observatrional study of the Northern Hemisphere extratropical summertime general circulation is documented by making use of twice-daily operational analysises at nine pressure levels (1000-100 mb) for 12 summers (1966-77). Two distinct regimes of standing
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Date:12/01/1992
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Aivkovic, M. J.F. Louis
Title:A new method for developing cloud specification schemes in general circulation models
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 2928-2941
Abstract:In the present pagper, we review a new method for relating cloud observations to large-scale variables of general circulation models. The method is based on an application of the cluster analysis to synoptica analyses of prognostic model variables provided ty the
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Date:01/01/1995
Subject:(32) General Circulation
(12) Climate
Author:Jones, R.G., J.M. Murphy, M. Noguer
Title:Simulation of climate change over Europe using a nested regional-climate model. I: Assessment of control climate, including sensitivity to location of lateral boundaries.
Publication:Q.J.R. Met. Soc., 121, 1413-1449
Abstract:Present day climate simulations for Europe are presented, based on a 50 km regional-climate model (RCM) driven by output from a global general-circulation model (GCM) using a one-way nesting approach.
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Date:7/1/1996
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Ghan, S.J., X. Bian, L. Corsetti
Title:Simulation of the Great Plains low-level jet and associated clouds by general circulation models.
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 7, 1388-1408
Abstract:The low-level jet frequently observed in the Great Plains of the United States forms preferentially at night and apparently influences the timing of thunderstorms in the region.
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Date:05/01/1995
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Zhang, R., Q. Zeng, G. Zhou, X. Liang
Title:A coupled general circulation model for the tropical Pacific Ocean and global atmosphere.
Publication:Advances in Atmos. Sci., 12, 2, 127-142
Abstract:On the basis of Zeng's theoretical design, a coupled general circulation model (CGCM) is developed with its characteristics different from other CGCMs such as the unified vertical coordinates and subtraction of the standard stratification for both atmospere and ocean, available energy consideration, and so on.
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Date:7/15/1998
Subject:(32) General Circulation
(66) Stratiform/Stratocu Clouds
Author:Hamilton, K.
Title:Effects of an imposed quasi-biennian oscillation in a comprehensive troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere general circulation model.
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2393-2418
Abstract:A 48-year integration was performed using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory SKYHI troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere GCM with an imposed zonal momentum forcing designed to produce a quasi-biennial oscillation in the tropical stratosphere.
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Date:05/01/1987
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Cess, R.D., G.L. Potter
Title:Exploratory sudies of cloud radiative forcing with a general circulation model
Publication:Tellus, 39A, 460-473
Abstract:Cloud radiative forcing constitutes the radiative impact of clouds upon the earth's present climate, while cloud radiative feedback is the change in this forcing associated with climatic change.
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Date:01/01/1989
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Dickinson, R.E., R.E. Errico, F. Giorgi, G.T. Bates
Title:A regional climate model for the western United States
Publication:Climatic Change, 15, 383-422
Abstract:A numerical approach to modeling climate on a regional scale is developed whereby large-scale weather systems are simulated with a global climate model (GCM) and the GCM output is used to provide the boundary conditions needed for high-resolution mesoscale model simulations over the region of interest.
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Date:05/01/1981
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Ding, Y.H., E.R. Reiter
Title:Large-scale circulation conditions affecting the variability in the frequency of tropical cyclone formation over the north Atlantic and the north Pacific oceans
Publication:Environmental Research paper #33, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Abstract:The frequency of hurricane formation over the North Atlantic is enhanced by the following conditions: A well-developed subtropical high-pressure belt, displaced to the north
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Date:07/01/1989
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Harshvardhan, D.A. Randall, T.G. Corsetti, D.A. Dazlich
Title:Earth radiation budget and cloudiness simulations with a general circulation model
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1922-1942
Abstract:The UCLA/GLA general circulation model has been endowed with new parameterizations of solar and terrestrial radiation, as well as new parameterized cloud optical properties.
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Date:01/01/1986
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Laval, K.
Title:General circulation model experiments with surface albedo changes
Publication:Clim. Change, 9, 91-102
Abstract:In 1975, Charney proposed a 'biogeophysical' feedback mechanism to partly explain the droughts that occur in desert border areas.
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Date:01/01/1998
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Miyakoda, K., J. Sirutis
Title:Extended range forecasting
Publication:Adv. Geophys., 28B, 55-85
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Date:05/01/1988
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Navarra, A., K. Miyakoda
Title:Anomaly general circulation models
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 1509-1530
Abstract:Anomaly models based on a spectral general circulatin model (GCM) are formulated and applied to a study of low-frequency atmospheric variability in the extratropics, and long-range forecasting research.
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Date:12/01/1989
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Noda, A., T. Tokioka
Title:The effect of doubling the CO_2 concentration on convective and non-convective precipitation in a general circulation model coupled with a simple mixed layer ocean model
Publication:J. Met. Soc. Japan, 67, 1057-1069
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Date:11/01/1992
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Power, S.B., A.M. Moore, D.A. Post, N.R. Smith, and R. Kleeman
Title:On the stability of north Atlantic deep water formation in a global ocean general circulation model
Publication:BMRC Research Report No. 34, Bureau of Meteorology Research Center, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract:A global ocean general circulation model is forced using mixed boundary conditions (i.e., a restoring condition on the upper level temperature but using a fixed, specified surface salt flux).
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Date:03/20/1992
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Randall, D.A., R.D. Cess, J.P. Blanchet, G.J. Boer, D.A. Dazlich, A.D. Del Genio, M. Deque, V. Dymnikov, V. Galin, S.J. Ghan, A.A. Lacis, H. Le Treut, Z.X. Li, X.Z. Liang, B.J. McAvaney, V.P. Meleshko, J.F.B. Mitchell, J.J. Morcrette, G.L. Potter, L. Rikus, E. Roechner, J.F. Royer, U. Schlese, D.A Sheinin, J. Slingo, A.P. Sokolov, K.E. Taylor, W.M. Washington, R.T. Wetherald, I. Yanai, M.H. Zhang
Title:Intercomparison and interpretation of surface energy fluxes in atmospheric general circulation models
Publication:J. Geophys. Res., 97, 3711-3724
Abstract:We have analyzed responses of the surface energy budgets and hydrologic cycles of 19 atmospheric general circulation models to an imposed, globally uniform sea surface temperatue perturbation of 4 K.
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Date:04/01/1984
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Reiter, E.R., M. Tang
Title:Plateau effects on diurnal circulation patterns
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 638-651
Abstract:The diurnal variation of 850 mb heights, the detailed distribution of which could be assessed by the inclusion of surface data, and of resultant winds over, and in the vicinity of, the Great Basin reveals clearly a plateu-wind
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Date:05/01/1981
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Reiter, E.R., D.R. Westhoff
Title:Atlas of linear trends in northern-hemisphere tropospheric geopotential height and temperature patterns
Publication:Environmental Research Papers No. 34, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Abstract:Gridded NMC data for 500-mb geopotential height, 300/500-mb and 500/700-mb tickness for the period 1951 to 1978 were subjected to linear trend analysis.
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Date:04/01/1984
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Tang, M., E.R. Reiter
Title:Plataeu monsoons of the northern hemisphere: A comparison between north America and Tibet
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 617-637
Abstract:Detailed analyses are presented of the temperature and pressure fields of the planetary boundary layer (PBL)and their seasonal variability over the western United States and over the Plateu of Tibet (Qinghai-Xizang Plateau).
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Date:10/01/1984
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Teixeira, L., E.R. Reiter
Title:Sea surface temperature, rainfall and southern oscillation: Relationships over tropical America
Publication:Environmental Research Papers No. 38, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Abstract:Some aspects of the annual and interannual variability of sea surface temperatures (SST) in the western tropical north Atlantic and the east Pacific off the Central American/Columbian coast
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Date:01/01/1994
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Xu, K.M., D.A. Randall
Title:Examination of cloud-radiation interactions with explicit simulation of cumulus ensembles
Publication:Proc., Fifth Symp. on Global Change Studies, Nashville, TN, 23-28 January 1984, AMS, Boston, AM.
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Date:1/23/1994
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Xu, K.M., D.A. Randall
Title:Further development of a cloud parameterization for use in climate models with ARM data
Publication:Proc., Fifth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Nashville, TN, 23-28 January 1994, AMS, Boston.
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Date:10/27/1999
Subject:(32) General Circulation
Author:Lohmann, U., et al.
Title:Correction to
Publication:J. Geo. Res., 104, 24557-24563
Abstract:
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