Specification of external forcing for regional model integrations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1409-1421

  Yoshimura, Kie ^a,b   Kanamitsu, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY OUTPUT; DOWN-SCALING; EXTERNAL FORCING; FIELD LEVEL; FORCINGS; GLOBAL MODELS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LATERAL BOUNDARY; LOW OVERHEAD; REGIONAL MODEL; TIME FREQUENCY; TIME INTERPOLATION; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

INTERPOLATION;

SIMULATORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; DOWNSCALING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERPOLATION; MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 68249146157     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2654.1     Document Type: Article

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