Validation of climate-mode MM5-simulations for the European Alpine Region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-108

  Pfeiffer, Andreas ^a   Zängl, Günther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATIC REGION; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEW POINT; DIFFUSION; DIURNAL VARIATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 77953746642     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0199-5     Document Type: Article

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