A high-resolution ocean-atmosphere coupled downscaling of the present climate over California

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 701-714

  Li, Haiqin ^a,b   Kanamitsu, Masao ^a   Hong, Song You ^c   Yoshimura, Kei ^d   Cayan, Daniel R ^a   Misra, Vasubandhu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCSM3; Coupled model; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Regional climate; ROMS; RSM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894919298     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1670-7     Document Type: Article

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