The impact of two land-surface schemes on the characteristics of summer precipitation over East Asia from the RegCM4 simulations

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3986-3997

  Kang, Suchul ^a,b   Im, Eun Soon ^c   Ahn, Joong Bae ^b  

^a APEC Climate Center   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Land surface scheme; RegCM4; Summer precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; REGCM4; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84914182020     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3998     Document Type: Article

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