Evaluation of spring persistent rainfall over East Asia in CMIP3/CMIP5 AGCM simulations

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1587-1600

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b,c   Li, Laurent ^b,c   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Xin, Xiaoge ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM); CMIP3; CMIP5; model comparison; spring persistent rainfall (SPR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886890149     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2139-7     Document Type: Article

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