Asian monsoon simulations by Community Climate Models CAM4 and CCSM4

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2617-2642

  Islam, Siraj ul ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a   Jackson, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84886724835     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1752-6     Document Type: Article

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