The effect of increased convective entrainment on Asian monsoon biases in the MetUM general circulation model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 686, 2015, Pages 311-326

  Bush, Stephanie J ^a,b   Turner, Andrew G ^a   Woolnough, Steven J ^a   Martin, Gill M ^b   Klingaman, Nicholas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon precipitation; Climate models; Convective parametrization; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ASIAN MONSOON; CONVECTIVE PARAMETRIZATION; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84922781664     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2371     Document Type: Article

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