Regional climate model sensitivity to domain size for the simulation of the West African summer monsoon rainfall

International Journal of Geophysics

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Browne, Nana A K ^a   Sylla, Mouhamadou B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SUMMER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861638768     PISSN: 1687885X     EISSN: 16878868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/625831     Document Type: Article

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