A comparison of tropical precipitation simulated by the community climate model with that measured by the tropical rainfall measuring mission satellite

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3319-3333

  Collier, J Craig ^a   Bowman, Kenneth P ^a   North, Gerald R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESEARCH; WEATHER SATELLITES;

LATENT ENERGY; PRECIPITATION RATES; TROPICAL RAINFALL; WET SEASONS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY;

EID: 5444245492     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3319:ACOTPS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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