Assessment of reanalysis daily extreme temperatures with China's homogenized historical dataset during 1979-2001 using probability density functions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6605-6623

  Mao, Jiafu ^a   Shi, Xiaoying ^a   Ma, Lijuan ^b   Kaiser, Dale ^a   Li, Qingxiang ^c   Thornton, Peter E ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SKILL SCORE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79251574376     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3581.1     Document Type: Article

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