Assessment of the severe weather environment in North America simulated by a global climate model

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 100-106

  Marsh, Patrick T ^a   Brooks, Harold E ^b   Karoly, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Climatologies; Severe convection

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38749117544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.159     Document Type: Article

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