Analysis of CCLM model biases in relation to intra-ensemble model variability

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 369-382

  Roesch, Andreas ^a   Jaeger, Eric B ^a   Lüthi, Daniel ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RANDOM PROCESSES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SAMPLING BIAS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NORTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58049132354     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0307     Document Type: Article

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