On the need for bias correction of regional climate change projections of temperature and precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Christensen, Jens H ^a   Boberg, Fredrik ^a   Christensen, Ole B ^a   Lucas Picher, Philippe ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BIAS CORRECTIONS; EUROPEANS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MEAN TEMPERATURES; OBSERVATIONAL DATUMS; RE ANALYSES; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SYSTEMATIC BIASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58249085384     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035694     Document Type: Article

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