Sensitivity of the simulated East Asian summer monsoon climatology to four convective parameterization schemes

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Kang, Hyun Suk ^a,b   Hong, Song You ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; DOMAIN SIZE; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PARAMETERIZED; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL; SPATIAL SPECTRA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 71949118636     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009692     Document Type: Article

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