Study on the effects of land surface heterogeneities in temperature and moisture on annual scale regional climate simulation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 151-163

  Zeng, Xinmin ^a,b,c   Liu, Jinbo ^a   Ma, Zhuguo ^b   Song, Shuai ^b   Xi, Chaoli ^a   Wang, Hanjie ^b  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneities in temperature and moisture; Regional climate model; Sensitivity; Simulation on the annual scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949736037     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8117-4     Document Type: Article

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