Simulation of a persistent snow storm over southern China with a regional atmosphere-ocean coupled model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 425-447

  Liao, Zhijie ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

coupled model; Madden Julian oscillation; POM; RegCM3; snow storm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873621942     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2098-4     Document Type: Article

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