Calibration of a convective parameterization scheme in the WRF model and its impact on the simulation of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1661-1684

  Yang, Ben ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a   Qian, Yun ^b   Huang, Anning ^a   Yan, Huiping ^b,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convection scheme; Parameter calibration; The East Asian summer monsoon precipitation; WRF model simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896551486     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2118-4     Document Type: Article

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