Impacts of systematic precipitation bias on simulations of water and energy balances in Northwest America

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 739-749

  Xia, Youlong ^a   Xu, Guoqiang ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Bias adjustment; LaD model; Northwest America; Water and energy balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149022487     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-007-0739-9     Document Type: Article

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