Validation of the coupled Eta/SSiB model over South America

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue D20, 2002, Pages

  Chou, Sin Chan ^a   Tanajura, Clemente A S ^b   Xue, Yongkang ^c   Nobre, Carlos A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3322 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Land atmosphere interactions; 3337 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation; 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052525789     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD000270     Document Type: Article

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