Exploring metrics of extreme daily precipitation in a large ensemble of regional climate model simulations

Climate Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 151-166

  Lenderink, Geert ^a  

^a NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extremes; Model performance; Precipitation; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; EXTREMES; LOW SENSITIVITY; MEASURE MODEL; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; POTENTIAL CONSTANTS; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 78650315555     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00946     Document Type: Article

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