Weather Research and Forecasting Model simulations of extended warm-season heavy precipitation episode over the US Southern Great Plains: data assimilation and microphysics sensitivity experiments
By: Zewdu T. Segele, Lance M. Leslie and Peter J. Lamb
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19599 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 19599 - 19599
Submitted on: Aug 22, 2012
Accepted on: May 31, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
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