A Quick Report on a Dynamical Downscaling Simulation over China Using the Nested Model

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 325-329

  En Tao, Yu ^a,b,c   Hui Jun, Wang ^a,b   Jian Qi, Sun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

CAM; dynamical downscaling; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84858030929     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2010.11446886     Document Type: Article

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