Regional climate simulations over Vietnam using the WRF model

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 161-182

  Raghavan, S V ^a,b   Vu, M T ^a,b   Liong, S Y ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

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EID: 84937901718     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1557-0     Document Type: Article

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