Assessment of dynamic downscaling of the Continental U.S. Regional Climate using the Eta/SSiB regional climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4172-4193

  Xue, Yongkang ^a   Vasic, Ratko ^a   Janjic, Zavisa ^b   Mesinger, Fedor ^c   Mitchell, Kenneth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING METHOD; ETA/SIMPLIFIED SIMPLE BIOSPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; SOUTHERLY LOW-LEVEL JET;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548479033     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4239.1     Document Type: Article

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