Impact of model resolution on the prediction of summer precipitation over the United States and Mexico

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3910-3927

  Mo, Kingtse C ^a   Schemm, Jae Kyung ^a   Juang, H M H ^a   Higgins, R Wayne ^a   Song, Yucheng ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MONSOON PRECIPITATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27344436060     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3513.1     Document Type: Article

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