Downscaling precipitation using regional climate models and circulation patterns toward hydrology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bárdossy, András ^a   Pegram, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DAILY RAINFALL; DOWN-SCALING; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GERMANY; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRID BLOCKS; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL FIELDS; RAINFALL FREQUENCY; RAINFALL PATTERNS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RHINE BASIN; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; VALIDATION PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TRANSFORM;

RHINE BASIN;

EID: 79954503761     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009689     Document Type: Article

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