Do GCMs predict the climate ... or macroweather?

We are used to the weather–climate dichotomy, yet the great majority of the spectral variance of atmospheric fields is in the continuous "background" and this defines instead a trichotomy with a "macroweather" regime in the intermediate range from ≈10 days to 10–30 yr (≈100 yr in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: S. Lovejoy, D. Schertzer, D. Varon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-11-01
Series:Earth System Dynamics
Online Access:http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/4/439/2013/esd-4-439-2013.pdf