Pacific Northwest climate sensitivity simulated by a Regional Climate Model driven by a GCM. Part I: Control simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2010-2030

  Leung, L Ruby ^a   Ghan, S J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (RCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032714509     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2010:PNCSSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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