Regional climate modeling over the maritime continent. Part I: New parameterization for convective cloud fraction

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1488-1503

  Gianotti, Rebecca L ^a   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84893867008     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00127.1     Document Type: Article

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