Sensitivity of summer precipitation simulated by the CLM with respect to initial and boundary conditions

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 421-431

  Ebell, Kerstin ^a,b   Bachner, Susanne ^b   Kapala, Alice ^b   Simmer, Clemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 58049104069     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0305     Document Type: Article

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