Modelling the Asian summer monsoon using CCAM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 219-236

  Nguyen, Kim Chi ^a   McGregor, John L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asia summer monsoon; Dynamical downscaling; Regional climate modelling; Variable resolution model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DOWNSCALING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOMALI BASIN;

EID: 58149089146     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0492-5     Document Type: Article

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