Improvements in the simulation of surface climatology over the European region with a nested modeling system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 273-276

  Giorgi, F ^a   Marinucci, M R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; EUROPEAN REGIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL MODEL; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NESTED MODELLING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL;

EUROPE;

EID: 0029756221     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00050     Document Type: Article

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