Very high-resolution regional climate simulations over Scandinavia-present climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3204-3229

  Christensen, Ole B ^a   Christensen, Jens H ^a   Machenhauer, Bennert ^b   Botzet, Michael ^b  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF; SNOW;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); REGIONAL HIGHER-RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL (RCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NESTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0032446160     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3204:VHRRCS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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