The global/regional integrated model system (GRIMs)

Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 219-243

  Hong, Song You ^a   Park, Hoon ^a,b   Cheong, Hyeong Bin ^c   Kim, Jung Eun Esther ^d   Koo, Myung Seo ^a   Jang, Jihyeon ^a   Ham, Suryun ^a   Hwang, Seung On ^b   Park, Byoung Kwon ^a,b   Chang, Eun Chul ^e   Li, Haiqin ^f  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^c Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^d EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate modeling; general circulation model; GRIMs; Numerical weather prediction; physics parameterization; regional climate modeling; seasonal prediction; WRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877886883     PISSN: 19767633     EISSN: 19767951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13143-013-0023-0     Document Type: Article

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