Tests of a perturbed physics ensemble approach for regional climate modeling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2881-2896

  Yang, Zhiwei ^a   Arritt, Raymond W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

(CENTRAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037109246     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<2881:TOAPPE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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