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Do initial conditions matter? a comparison of model climatologies generated from different initial states
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Spar, J. Wu, P. Cohen, C. |
| Copyright Year | 1981 |
| Description | A coarse mesh (8 by 10) 7 layer global climate model was used to compute 15 months of meteorological history in two perpetual January experiments on a water planet (without continents) with a zonally symmetric climatological January sea surface temperature field. In the first of the two water planet experiments the initial atmospheric state was a set of zonal mean values of specific humidity, temperature, and wind at each latitude. In the second experiment the model was initialized with globally uniform mean values of specific humidity and temperature on each sigma level surface, constant surface pressure (1010 mb), and zero wind everywhere. A comparison was made of the mean January climatic states generated by the two water planet experiments. The first two months of each 15 January run were discarded, and 13 month averages were computed from months 3 through 15. |
| File Size | 1631870 |
| Page Count | 30 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19810013172 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9p31q35b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1981-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Temperature Distribution Climatology Boundary Value Problems Atmospheric Pressure Atmospheric Models Humidity Climate Models Pressure Graphs Charts Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
