An Experiment on the Sensitivity of a Global Circulation Model: Studies in Climate Dynamics for Environmental Security

Abstract

Results are given for a series of six 60-day integrations of the Mintz-Arakawa two-level, global-circulation model, designed to test the hypothesis that sizable changes in boundary conditions could be detected in the solutions even in the presence of uncertainties in the initial conditions. The variables considered are zonally averaged and time averaged values from the last 30 days of each 60-day run; the significance of the changes is tested by a classical analysis-of-variance technique.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0739676

Entities

People

  • M. Warshaw
  • R. R. Rapp

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Data Science
  • Grids
  • Heat Energy
  • Information Science
  • Oceans
  • Perturbations
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics
  • Temperature Gradients

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Regression Analysis.