Very high-resolution climate simulation over Fiji using a global variable-resolution model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 293-305

  Lal, Murari ^a,c   McGregor, John L ^b   Nguyen, Kim C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CESDAC   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 38849137846     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0287-0     Document Type: Article

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