Towards coupling a 3D hydrodynamic lake model with the Canadian Regional Climate Model: Simulation on Great Slave Lake

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 787-796

  Leon L F ^a   Lam, D C L ^b   Schertzer, W M ^b   Swayne, D A ^a   Imberger, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D hydrodynamic lake model; Canadian regional climate model; Model verification; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

3D HYDRODYNAMIC LAKE MODELS; CANADIAN REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL VERIFICATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 33846632888     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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