Sensitivity studies of the RegCM3 simulation of summer precipitation, temperature and local wind field in the Caribbean Region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 5-22

  Martinez Castro D ^a   Porfirio da Rocha, R ^b   Bezanilla Morlot, A ^a   Alvarez Escudero, L ^a   Reyes Fernandez J P ^c   Silva Vidal, Y ^d   Arritt, R W ^e  

^a Instituto de Meteorologia de la Republica de Cuba   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA BREEZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 33748142949     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0201-9     Document Type: Article

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