Model climatology of the North American monsoon onset period during 1980-2001

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3892-3906

  Xu, J ^a   Gao, Xiaogang ^b   Shuttleworth, J ^a   Sorooshian, S ^b   Small, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SKIN; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WIND EFFECTS;

MONSOON RAINFALL; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON SYSTEMS (NAMS); SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL (SMO);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8744291715     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3892:MCOTNA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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