Global to regional simulations of California wintertime precipitation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D24, 1999, Pages 31517-31532

  Chen, Shyh Chin ^a   Roads, John O ^a   Juang, Hann Ming H ^b   Kanamitsu, Masao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WINTER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18744426411     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JD200043     Document Type: Article

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