20 km resolution regional climate model experiments over Australia: Experimental design and simulations of current climate

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-193

  Song, Ruiyan ^a,b   Gao, Xuejie ^b   Zhang, Huqiang ^c   Moise, Aurel ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; MONSOON; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARLING BASIN; MURRAY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 61849166131     PISSN: 00049743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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