Simulation and sensitivity in a nested modeling system for South America. Part II: GCM boundary forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2454-2471

  Rojas, Maisa ^a   Seth, Anji ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141682944     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2454:SASIAN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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