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Defining metrics of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models
- Abstract:
- As the dominant mode of variability in the tropical stratosphere, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) has been subject to extensive research. Though there is a well developed theory of this phenomenon being forced by wave-mean flow interaction, simulating the QBO adequately in global climate models (GCMs) still remains difficult. This paper presents a set of metrics to characterise the QBO using a number of different reanalysis datasets and the FU Berlin radiosonde observation dataset. The same metrics are then calculated from CMIP5 and CCMVal-2 intercomparison project simulations which included a representation of QBO like behaviour to evaluate which aspects of the QBO are well captured by the models and which ones remain a challenge for future model development.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- 10.5194/gmd-2016-284
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- QBOnet (NE/M005828/1)
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- Publisher:
- Copernicus Publications
- Journal:
- Geoscientific Model Development Discussions More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-05
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1991-962X
- ISSN:
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1991-9611
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pubs:684986
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uuid:0504deb9-7225-40c2-84e7-9e93dde4fe56
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684986
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- Schenzinger et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © Author(s) 2016. Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geophysical Union. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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