Forcing a distributed glacier mass balance model with the regional climate model REMO. Part I: climate model evaluation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1589-1606

  Kotlarski, Sven ^a   Paul, Frank ^b   Jacob, Daniela ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATIC RESEARCH; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; COUPLING INTERFACES; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN ALPS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL RADIATION; GRID-BOX; MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE MODEL; MASS-BALANCE MODELING; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; POSITIVE BIAS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SCOPE OF APPLICATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SYSTEMATIC MODELS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; THREE PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; GLACIERS; LASERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ALPS;

EID: 77953673753     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2711.1     Document Type: Article

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