The Role of Differential Heating in Climate and Climate Variability Within Simulations of the NCAR CCM

本研究项目的目的是利用来自NCAR群落气候模式（DDC）扩展整合的数据，详细研究差异加热在气候中的作用及其变率。该项目将继续并扩展先前的工作，重点是对早期版本的CCM （CCMOB）和当前版本（CCM1）的热分布预测进行详细比较。这是一个重要的项目，因为它将有助于量化新版CCM （CCM1）中差异加热表示的改进或不足。这些结果将为未来改进模型物理的策略提供基础。

The objective in this research project is to carry out detailed studies on the role of differential heating in climate and its variability using data from extended integrations of the NCAR Community Climate Model (DDC). The project will continue and extend on previous work which focussed on a detailed comparison of heating distributions prediction by an earlier version of the CCM (CCMOB) and the current version (CCM1). This is important project since it will help to quantify the improvements or deficiencies in the representation of differential heating in the new version of the CCM (CCM1). The results will provide a basis for developing future strategies for improving the model physics.