Coherence of warm-season continental rainfall in numerical weather prediction models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2667-2679

  Davis, Christopher A ^a   Manning, Kevin W ^a   Carbone, Richard E ^a   Trier, Stanley B ^a   Tuttle, John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OROGRAPHIC FORCING;

RAIN;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0346752401     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2667:COWCRI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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