Regional climate simulation with a mosaic of RCMs

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-266

  Déqué, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LOW RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERFECT MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; TIME CONSISTENCY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955622852     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0455     Document Type: Article

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