Asian summer monsoon simulated by a global cloud-system-resolving model: Diurnal to intra-seasonal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Oouchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Noda, Akira T ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^c   Xie, Shang Ping ^c   Takahashi, Hiroshi G ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a,d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLING PROCESS; DIURNAL CYCLE; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH FIDELITY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; NARROW BANDS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; POSITIVE BIAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SYNOPTIC-SCALE SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

ARAKAN; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDOCHINA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

YOMA;

EID: 68949119391     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038271     Document Type: Article

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