Development of a relationship between station and grid-box rainday frequencies for climate model evaluation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1885-1908

  Osborn, T J ^a   Hulme, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELS; RAINDAY FREQUENCIES;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION;

EID: 0031200813     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1885:DOARBS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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