Physically based global downscaling: Regional evaluation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 429-445

  Ghan, Steven J ^a   Shippert, Timothy ^a   Fox, Jared ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SNOW;

GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE-LAND MODEL; RAIN SHADOW; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SUBGRID OROGRAPHY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING;

EID: 33645220043     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3622.1     Document Type: Article

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