Simulations of the 2004 North American monsoon: NAMAP2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6716-6740

  Gutzler, D S ^a   Long, L N ^b   Schemm, J ^c   Baidya Roy, S ^d   Bosilovich, M ^e   Collier, J C ^f   Kanamitsu, M ^f   Kelly, P ^g   Lawrence, D ^h   Lee, M I ^e,i   Lobato Sanchez R ^j   Mapes, B ^g   Mo, K ^c   Nunes, A ^f   Ritchie, E A ^k   Roads, J ^f   Schubert, S ^e   Wei, H ^c   Zhang, G J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^j INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE TECNOLOGÍA DEL AGUA   (Mexico)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DIURNAL CYCLE; GLOBAL MODELS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOW LEVEL JET; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ME-XICO; MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODEL SIMULATION; MONSOON ONSET; MONSOONAL PRECIPITATION; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL MODEL; SECOND PHASE; SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES; TIME VARYING; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WARM SEASON PRECIPITATION; WARM SEASONS;

JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

ARIZONA; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; NEW MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649303679     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3138.1     Document Type: Article

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