Precipitation over East Asia simulated by NCAR CAM5 at different horizontal resolutions

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 774-790

  Li, Jian ^a   Yu, Rucong ^a   Yuan, Weihua ^b   Chen, Haoming ^a   Sun, Wei ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a,b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

climate model; East Asia; horizontal resolution; precipitation

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ANNUAL MEAN PRECIPITATION; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; EAST ASIA; FREQUENCY STRUCTURE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LONG TERM SIMULATION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; RESOLUTION INCREASE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85027920852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000414     Document Type: Article

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