Climate downscaling over South America for 1961-1970 using the Eta Model

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 75-93

  Pesquero, José Fernando ^a   Chou, Sin Chan ^a   Nobre, Carlos Afonso ^a   Marengo, José Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70849095716     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0123-z     Document Type: Article

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