Sensitivity of regional climatic simulation over Southeastern South America to SST specification during austral summer

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 793-804

  Cuadra, Santiago Vianna ^a   Da Rocha, Rosmeri Porfírio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Model internal variability; Regional climate simulations; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL INTERNAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 34248161019     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1431     Document Type: Article

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