Improvement of rainfall simulation on the steep edge of the Tibetan Plateau by using a finite-difference transport scheme in CAM5

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2937-2948

  Yu, Rucong ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a,b,c   Chen, Haoming ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate model; Precipitation; Tibetan Plateau; Transport scheme

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84946481462     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2515-3     Document Type: Article

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