Underestimated tropical stratiform precipitation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM3)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Song, Xiaoliang ^a,b   Yu, Rucong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

3337 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation; 3354 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 3374 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Tropical meteorology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODEL (CCM); NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (NCAR); STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 14544292477     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021292     Document Type: Article

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