Simulating the diurnal cycle of rainfall in global climate models: Resolution versus parameterization

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 399-418

  Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Cash, Benjamin A ^a   Kinter III, James L ^a,b   Jung, Thomas ^c   Marx, Lawrence ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^d,e   Stan, Cristiana ^a   Tomita, Hirofumi ^d   Towers, Peter ^c   Wedi, Nils ^c   Achuthavarier, Deepthi ^a   Adams, Jennifer M ^a   Altshuler, Eric L ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Jin, Emilia K ^a,b   Manganello, Julia ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate model; Diurnal cycle; GCM; Parameterization; Precipitation; Resolution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84863008896     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1127-9     Document Type: Article

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