High-resolution subtropical summer precipitation derived from dynamical downscaling of the NCEP/DOE reanalysis: How much small-scale information is added by a regional model?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1061-1080

  Lim, Young Kwon ^a,b   Stefanova, Lydia B ^a   Chan, Steven C ^a   Schubert, Siegfried D ^b   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052273047     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0891-2     Document Type: Article

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