Evaluation of a high-resolution historical simulation over China: climatology and extremes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2013-2031

  Yu, Entao ^a,b   Sun, Jianqi ^a,b   Chen, Huopo ^a,b,c   Xiang, Weiling ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climatology and extremes; Model evaluation; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84943819053     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2452-6     Document Type: Article

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