Investigating spatial climate relations using CARTs: An application to persistent hot days in a multimodel ensemble

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Orlowsky, B ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

BIAS PROBLEMS; CART ANALYSIS; CHANGE PATTERNS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE PATTERNS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; HIGH WATER; LAND SURFACE CONDITIONS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TIME-AVERAGED; WATER DEFICITS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATER; WATER BUDGET;

EUROPE;

EID: 79960913227     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015188     Document Type: Article

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