On the ability of the regional climate model RIEMS to simulate the present climate over Asia

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 784-791

  Xiong, Zhe ^a   Fu, Congbin ^a   Zhang, Qing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Mean climatology; RIEMS; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750698283     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0784-9     Document Type: Article

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