Can regional climate models represent the Indian monsoon?

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 849-868

  Lucas Picher, Philippe ^a,b   Christensen, Jens H ^b   Saeed, Fahad ^c   Kumar, Pankaj ^c   Asharaf, Shakeel ^d   Ahrens, Bodo ^d   Wiltshire, Andrew J ^e   Jacob, Daniela ^d   Hagemann, Stefan ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate models; Indian Ocean; Monsoon; Monsoons

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND VELOCITY;

BANGLADESH; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR;

EID: 83455245946     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JHM1327.1     Document Type: Article

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