The influence of the tropics upon the prediction of the Southern Hemisphere circulation within the GLAS GCMAn examination is undertaken of the sensitivity of short term Southern Hemisphere circulation prediction to tropical wind data and tropical latent heat release. The data assimilation experiments employ the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences' fourth-order general circulation model. Two of the experiments are identical, but for the fact that one uses tropical wind data while the other does not. A third experiment contains the identical initial conditions of forecasts with tropical winds, while suppressing tropical latent heat release.
Document ID
19840063065
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Baker, W. E. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Paegle, J. (Utah, University Salt Lake City, UT, United States)