Comparison of products from ERA-40, NCEP-2, and CRU with station data for summer precipitation over China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 593-604

  Zhao, Tianbao ^a,b   Fu, Congbin ^a  

^a Global Change System for Analysis Research and Training   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Comparison; Observations; Reanalysis; Summer precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746813014     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0593-1     Document Type: Article

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