Some factors in the design of a regional prediction model: An examination based upon two MAP events

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-273

  Didone, Marco ^a   Lüthi, Daniel ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 34548150763     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0202     Document Type: Article

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