Monsoon regimes in the CCSM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2482-2495

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a   Lawrence, David M ^a   Seth, Anji ^b   Schneider, Edwin K ^c,d   Kirtman, Ben P ^c,d   Min, Dughong ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; WIND;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL VERSION 3 (CCSM3); MONSOON VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33745098318     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3745.1     Document Type: Article

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