A multiyear ensemble simulation of the U.S. climate with a stretched-grid GCM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2505-2525

  Fox Rabinovitz, Michael S ^a   Berbery, Ernesto Hugo ^a   Takacs, Lawrence L ^b,c   Govindaraju, Ravi C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (GEOS); REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RESOLUTION;

EID: 27144457810     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2956.1     Document Type: Article

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