A possible cause of a regional climate model's failure in simulating the east Asian summer monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Zhong, Zhong ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 34548009574     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027654     Document Type: Article

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