A weighting proposal for an ensemble of regional climate models over Europe driven by 1961-2000 ERA40 based on monthly precipitation probability density functions

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-248

  Saanchez E ^a   Romera, R ^a   Gaertner, M A ^a   Gallardo, C ^a   Castro, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77949334757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.230     Document Type: Article

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