Regional climate simulations over North America: Interaction of local processes with improved large-scale flow

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1227-1246

  Miguez Macho, Gonzalo ^a   Stenchikov, Georgiy L ^a   Robock, Alan ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

PARAMETERIZATIONS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS (RAMS); SOIL DATA; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE; MODELING;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19144369202     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3369.1     Document Type: Article

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