Dynamic downscaling of seasonal climate predictions over Brazil

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 3411-3426

  Druyan, Leonard M ^a   Fulakeza, Matthew ^a   Lonergan, Patrick ^b  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0036951251     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3411:DDOSCP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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