A pragmatic approach for downscaling precipitation in alpine-scale complex terrain

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 631-646

  Früh, Barbara ^a   Schipper, Janus Willem ^b,c   Pfeiffer, Andreas ^b   Wirth, Volkmar ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CATCHMENT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALPS; DANUBE VALLEY; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33846011071     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0137     Document Type: Article

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