The Radiation and Heat Budget of the Mintz-Arakawa Model: January

Abstract

The report describes the results of a detailed examination of the radiation and heat budgets of the Rand version of the Mintz-Arakawa two-level atmospheric general circulation model for a January control run. The Mintz- Arakawa model is used extensively in the Rand Climate Dynamics Project, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and this study represents part of the continuing effort to verify and improve the model. Considerations of the sort undertaken here are necessary to insure that the radiation and heat terms in the model are good approximations to the real atmosphere, and that one may reasonably perform numerical experiments with the model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0777077

Entities

People

  • Anne B. Kahle
  • Frank Haurwitz

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Climate Change
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Condensation
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Heat Balance
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Latent Heat
  • Latitude
  • Meteorology
  • Solar Radiation
  • Surface Temperature
  • Water Vapor

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.