Future australian severe thunderstorm environments. Part I: A novel evaluation and climatology of convective parameters from two climate models for the late twentieth century

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3827-3847

  Allen, John T ^a,b   Karoly, David J ^a   Walsh, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THUNDERSTORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCHES; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS; MODEL CLIMATOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND SHEAR;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84900440353     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00425.1     Document Type: Article

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