Simulation of the diurnal cycle in a climate model and its evaluation using data from Meteosat 7

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 599 PART B, 2004, Pages 1449-1467

  Slingo, A ^a   Hodges, K I ^a   Robinson, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diurnal cycle; Satellite data; Unified Model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODEL; DIURNAL CYCLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; METEOSAT; RADIANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 2942511200     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.165     Document Type: Article

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