Modeling high-impact weather and climate: lessons from a tropical cyclone perspective

Climatic Change

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 381-395

  Done, James M ^a   Holland, Greg J ^a   Bruyère, Cindy L ^a,b   Leung, L Ruby ^c   Suzuki Parker, Asuka ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; METEOROLOGY; STORMS;

CURRENT MODELING; IMPACT-PARAMETER; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84925881632     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0954-6     Document Type: Article

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