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Importance of Winds and Soil Moistures to the US Summertime Drought of 1988: A GCM Simulation Study

Authors :
Mocko, David M
Sud, Y. C
Lau, William K. M
Publication Year :
2001
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2001.

Abstract

The climate version of NASA's GEOS 2 GCM did not simulate a realistic 1988 summertime drought in the central United States (Mocko et al., 1999). Despite several new upgrades to the model's parameterizations, as well as finer grid spacing from 4x5 degrees to 2x2.5 degrees, no significant improvements were noted in the model's simulation of the U.S. drought.

Subjects

Subjects :
Environment Pollution

Details

Language :
English
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20020060666
Document Type :
Report