A high resolution reference data set of German wind velocity 1951-2001 and comparison with regional climate model results

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 585-596

  Walter, Andreas ^a,b,e   Keuler, Klaus ^b   Jacob, Daniela ^c   Knoche, Richard ^d   Block, Alexander ^b   Kotlarski, Sven ^c   Müller Westermeier, Gerhard ^a   Rechid, Diana ^c   Ahrens, Wilfried ^b  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; HYDROSTATICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHY; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 33845970552     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0162     Document Type: Article

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