Adjustment of GCM precipitation intensity over the United States

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 876-887

  Chen, Mingxuan ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032453075     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0876:AOGPIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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