A highly resolved regional climate model (IPRC-RegCM) and its simulation of the 1998 severe precipitation event over China. Part I: Model description and verification of simulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1721-1738

  Wang, Yuqing ^a   Sen, Omer L ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEVERE WEATHER;

CHINA;

EID: 0037669719     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1721:AHRRCM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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