How physical parameterizations can modulate internal variability in a regional climate model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 714-724

  Crétat, Julien ^a   Pohl, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate variability; Intraseasonal variability; Rainfall; Regional models; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GRID POINTS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; KEY FACTORS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODELS; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84857209682     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0109.1     Document Type: Article

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