Skill and reproducibility of seasonal rainfall patterns in the tropics in ECHAM-4 GCM simulations with prescribed SST

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 83-100

  Moron, V ^a,d   Navarra, A ^a   Ward, M N ^a,b   Roeckner, E ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c MPI for Meteorology   (Germany)

^d CAGEP CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ECHAM; GCM; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TERMPERATURE; TROPICS;

EID: 0031980962     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050211     Document Type: Article

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