Climatological relationships among the moisture budget components and rainfall amounts over the Mediterranean based on a super-high-resolution climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Jin, Fengjun ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAIN; RECYCLING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MOISTURE BUDGET; MOISTURE FLUXES; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; RECYCLING RATIO; SEASONAL RAINFALL; TIME-PERIODS;

MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; INFLOW; LATITUDE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; OUTFLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RECYCLING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79955903371     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014021     Document Type: Article

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