Impact of soil moisture initialisation and lateral boundary conditions on regional climate model simulations of the West African Monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-229

  Moufouma Okia, W ^a   Rowell, D P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global climate model; Lateral boundary conditions; Reanalysis; Regional climate model; Soil moisture initialisation; West African Monsoon Modelling and Evaluation project

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HADLEY CELL; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 77954143603     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0638-0     Document Type: Article

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