Evaluation of WRF mesoscale climate simulations over the Tibetan Plateau during 1979-2011

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2823-2841

  Gao, Yanhong ^a   Xu, Jianwei ^a   Chen, Deliang ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate models; Model evaluation performance; Nonhydrostatic models; Numerical analysis modeling; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HEIGHT TEMPERATURE; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; REGIONAL MODEL; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84925403495     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00300.1     Document Type: Article

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