Sensitivity study of regional climate model simulations to large-scale nudging parameters

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1666-1686

  Alexandru, Ádelina ^a   De Elia, Rsmon ^a   Laprise, René ^a   Separovic, Leo ^a   Biner, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Ouranos Consortium ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN SIZE; IN-PHASE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LARGE DOMAIN; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LENGTH SCALE; NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS; POWER-SPECTRA; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SIDE EFFECT; SUMMER SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SIMULATORS;

EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 68249146162     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2620.1     Document Type: Article

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