Downscaling Indonesian precipitation using large-scale meteorological fields

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1706-1722

  Vimont, Daniel J ^a   Battisti, David S ^b   Naylor, Rosamond L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Downscaling; ENSO; Indonesia; Monsoon; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

DOWN-SCALING; ENSO; INDONESIA; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; LINEARITY; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

INDONESIA;

EID: 77956591955     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2010     Document Type: Article

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