The general circulation model precipitation bias over the southwestern equatorial Indian Ocean and its implications for simulating the South Asian monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 823-838

  Bollasina, Massimo A ^a   Ming, Yi ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Precipitation; Sea surface temperature gradient; South Asian monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84874946750     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1347-7     Document Type: Article

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