Sensitivity of horizontal resolution in the AGCM simulations of Warm season diurnal cycle of precipitation over the United States and Northern Mexico

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1862-1881

  Lee, Myong In ^a,b   Schubert, Siegfried D ^b   Suarez, Max J ^b   Held, Isaac M ^c   kumar, Arun ^d   Bell, Thomas L ^b   Schemm, Jae Kyung E ^d   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^c   Ploshay, Jeffrey J ^c   Kim, Hyun Kyung ^d   Yoo, Soo Hyun ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TOPOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASON DIURNAL CYCLE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CONVECTION; COUPLING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOISTURE FLUX; MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249657458     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4090.1     Document Type: Article

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