On the suitability of regional climate models for reconstructing climatologies

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 739-751

  Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Angelis, Carlos F ^b   Viltard, Nicolas ^c   Cuartero, Fernando ^a   de Castro, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climatologies; Reanalysis; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING POWER; DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL MODELS; INFORMATION PRODUCTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HUMIDITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 79960119276     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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