ENSO Simulation in CGCMs and the Associated Errors in Atmospheric Response
Tropical Pacific variability, and specifically the simulation of ENSO in coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models (CGCMs) has previously been assessed in many studies (McCreary and Anderson [1991], Neelin et al. [1992], Mechoso et al. [1995], Latif et al. [2000], and Davey et al. [2000]). These studies have concentrated on SST variations in the tropical Pacific, and discussions of the atmospheric response have been limited to east-west movements of the convergence zone. In this paper we discuss the large-scale atmospheric response to simulated ENSO events. Control simulations from 17 global CGCMs from CMIP (Meehl et al. [2000]) are studied. The web site http:// www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip/modeldoc provides documentation of the configurations of the models.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-Eng-48
- OSTI ID:
- 791373
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-139400; TRN: US200206%%28
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on Systematic Errors, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne (AU), 10/16/2000--10/20/2000; Other Information: PBD: 11 Sep 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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