Improved simulation of the east Asian summer monsoon rainfall with satellite-derived snow water equivalent data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1790-1804

  Souma, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOUTH CHINA; SPRING SNOW; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TROPOSPHERE;

SNOW;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 68249133837     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2800.1     Document Type: Article

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