Caribbean Precipitation in Observations and IPCC AR4 Models

A census of 24 coupled (CMIP) and 13 uncoupled (AMIP) models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth assessment report (AR4) were compared with observations and reanalysis to show varied ability of the models to simulate Caribbean precipitation and mechanisms related to prec...

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Main Author: Martin, Elinor Ruth
Other Authors: Schumacher, Courtney, Chang, Ping, Dessler, Andrew, Wilcox, Bradford
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Caribbean
Precipitation
IPCC
Madden-Julian Oscillation
climate models
parameterizations
low-level jet
Nash
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9933

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