Seasonal and interannual variations of surface climate elements over Vietnam

Climate Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-60

  Phan, Van Tan ^a   Ngo Duc, Thanh ^b   Ho, Thi Minh Ha ^a  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b Aero Meteorological Observatory   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Model performance measures; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DRY SEASONS; INDOCHINA PENINSULA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAPSE RATE; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NEGATIVE BIAS; OBSERVATION DATA; OBSERVED DATA; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SUB-REGIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE CLIMATE; VIET NAM;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AGROMETEOROLOGY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDOCHINA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 70349590331     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00824     Document Type: Article

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