COSMO-CLM2: A new version of the COSMO-CLM model coupled to the Community Land Model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1889-1907

  Davin, Edouard L ^a   Stöckli, Reto ^a,b   Jaeger, Eric B ^a   Levis, Samuel ^c   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b MeteoSwiss   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

European climate; Land Surface Models; Land atmosphere interactions; Regional Climate Models

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EUROPE;

EID: 80355133518     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1019-z     Document Type: Article

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