Statistico-dynamical downscaling for Mediterranean heavy precipitation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 736-748

  Beaulant, A L ^a   Joly, B ^a   Nuissier, O ^a   Somot, S ^a   Ducrocq, V ^a   Joly, A ^a   Sevault, F ^a   Deque, M ^a   Ricard, D ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Disaggregation method; High precipitating events

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; CLIMATE; DISAGGREGATION METHOD; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENTS; FLASH FLOOD; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HIGH-PRECIPITATING EVENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL OUTPUTS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TWO STEP METHOD; WEATHER EVENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOWCHARTING; RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 79955447893     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.796     Document Type: Article

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