Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zhou, Tianjun (Editor), Yu, Yongqiang (Editor), Liu, Yimin (Editor), Wang, Bin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Earth System Sciences
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Meteorology.; Physical geography.; Geophysics.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Climate Change.

Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute o...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I FGOALS Components for CMIP5
• Introduction
• Spectral Atmospheric General Circulation Model – Version 2: SAMIL2
• Part II Model Evaluation and Analyses.-Overview of FGOALS contribution to international climate modeling community
• Long-term trends of two versions of FGOALS
• Part III Model Development and Improvements beyond CMIP5
• High resolution LICOM
• High resolution H-GAMIL
• High resolution SAMIL3
• Atmospheric Chemistry Model.