Exploiting an ensemble of regional climate models to provide robust estimates of projected changes in monthly temperature and precipitation probability distribution functions

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 61 A, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-71

  Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Sánchez, Enrique ^a   Romera, Raquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58049121762     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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