East China summer rainfall variability of 1958-2000: Dynamical downscaling with a variable-resolution AGCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6394-6408

  Zou, Liwei ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Li, Laurent ^b,c   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EAST CHINA; EASTERN CHINA; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL TEMPERATURES; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RELAXATION PROCEDURES; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOUTHERN CHINA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SUMMER RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; WIND TRANSPORT; YELLOW RIVER;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONDENSATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND;

CHINA;

EID: 78650545830     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3689.1     Document Type: Article

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