High-resolution regional climate simulations over iceland using polar MM5

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3527-3547

  Bromwich, David H ^a   Bai, Lesheng ^a   Bjarnason, Gudmundur G ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental and Food Agency   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC ADVECTION; ICELAND; KATABATIC WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA BREEZE;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 31344478709     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3049.1     Document Type: Article

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