Impacts of land process on the onset and evolution of Asian summer monsoon in the NCEP climate forecast system

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1301-1317

  Yang, Song ^a   Wen, Min ^b   Yang, Rongqian ^c,d   Higgins, Wayne ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d IM Systems Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; land initial conditions; land models; NCEP Climate Forecast System

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054119220     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0167-8     Document Type: Article

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