Impacts of an improved low-level cloud scheme on the eastern Pacific ITCZ-cold tongue complex

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 559-574

  Dai, Fushan ^a,b   Yu, Rucong ^a   Zhang, Xuehong ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a   Li, Jianglong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY   (China)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled model; Double ITCZ; Equatorial cold tongue; Low level cloud; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044479000     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918488     Document Type: Article

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