Reproducibility of precipitation distribution over the tropical oceans in CMIP5 multi-climate models compared to CMIP3

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 2909-2920

  Hirota, Nagio ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMIP5; Cold tongue bias; Double ITCZ; Precipitation distribution; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84888046916     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1839-0     Document Type: Article

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