A regional model simulation of the 1991 severe precipitation event over the Yangtze-Huai River valley. Part II: Model bias

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-108

  Gong, Wei ^a   Wang, Wei Chyung ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MODELING; PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA;

EID: 0034081711     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0093:ARMSOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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