Oceanic forcing for the East Asian precipitation in pacemaker AGCM experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Minghong ^c   Cash, Ben ^a   Li, Shuanglin ^c  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EAST ASIA; EASTERN PACIFIC; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL OCEAN;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXED LAYER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TELECONNECTION;

FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 79959477923     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047614     Document Type: Article

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