How well can CMIP5 simulate precipitation and its controlling processes over tropical South America?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 3127-3143

  Yin, Lei ^a   Fu, Rong ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^b,c   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon precipitation; Climate variability; CMIP5 models; ET; Rainfall seasonality; SST indices

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOWEN RATIO; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84888056862     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1582-y     Document Type: Article

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