Summer weather simulations for the semiarid lower Colorado River Basin: Case tests

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 521-541

  Li, Jialun ^a   Gao, X ^a   Maddox, R A ^a   Sorooshian, S ^a   Hsu, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLORADO RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041924003     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<0521:SWSFTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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