Extreme precipitation and temperature over the U.S. Pacific Northwest: A comparison between observations, reanalysis data, and regional models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1950-1964

  Duliè, Valérie ^a,b   Zhang, Yongxin ^c   Salathé, Eric P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Mesoscale processes; Orographic effects; Precipitation; Regional models; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GRID-SPACINGS; LOCAL EXTREMES; MESOSCALE PROCESS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE INDEX; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958140527     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3224.1     Document Type: Article

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