The land surface model component of ACCESS: Description and impact on the simulated surface climatology

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-82

  Kowalczyk, E A ^a   Stevens, L ^a   Law, R M ^a   Dix, M ^a   Wang, Y P ^a   Harman, I N ^a   Haynes, K ^a,b   Srbinovsky, J ^a   Pak, B ^a   Ziehn, T ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84882402863     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.005     Document Type: Article

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