Validation of a high-resolution regional climate model for the alpine region and effects of a subgrid-scale topography and land use representation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1854-1873

  Im, E S ^a   Coppola, E ^a   Giorgi, F ^a   Bi, X ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; COARSE GRID; CONTROL SIMULATION; DISAGGREGATION; GRID CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAPSE RATE; MODEL SENSITIVITY; MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE;

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND USE; SNOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAND USE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALPS;

EID: 77949284392     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3262.1     Document Type: Article

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