A comparison of East Asian summer monsoon simulations from CAM3.1 with three dynamic cores

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 295-306

  Wei, Ting ^a,b   Wang, Lanning ^b   Dong, Wenjie ^b   Dong, Min ^c   Zhang, Jingyong ^d  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

FAR EAST;

EID: 81155128654     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0409-9     Document Type: Article

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