Evaluation of daily precipitation characteristics in the CLM and their sensitivity to parameterizations

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 407-419

  Bachner, Susanne ^a   Kapala, Alice ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 58049125600     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0300     Document Type: Article

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