Temperature and precipitation scenarios for Norway: Comparison of results from dynamical and empirical downscaling

Climate Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-27

  Hanssen Bauer, I ^a   Forland E J ^a   Haugen, J E ^a   Tveito, O E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; Empirical downscaling; Norway; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

NORWAY;

EID: 0345304391     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr025015     Document Type: Article

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