Validating a regional climate model's downscaling ability for East Asian summer monsoonal interannual variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2411-2426

  Sato, Tomonori ^a   Xue, Yongkang ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Dynamical downscaling; East Asian summer monsoon; Regional climate modeling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886727922     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1616-5     Document Type: Article

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