Long simulation of regional climate as a sequence of short segments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 308-321

  Pan, Zaitao ^a   Takle, Eugene ^a   Gutowski, William ^a   Turner, Richard ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0032699914     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0308:lsorca>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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