Climate downscaling over Nordeste, Brazil, using the NCEP RSM97

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 551-567

  Sun, Liqiang ^a   Moncunill, David Ferran ^b   Li, Huilan ^a   Moura, Antonio Divino ^c   de Assis de Souza Filho, Francisco ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b FUNCEME   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DROUGHT INDEX; FLOODING INDEX; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL (RSM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

DOWNSCALING;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11044236272     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3266.1     Document Type: Article

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