A semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian regional climate model: The Canadian RCM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 341-362

  Caya, Daniel ^a   Laprise, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0032699915     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0341:asislr>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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