Evaluation of the warm season diurnal cycle of precipitation over Sweden simulated by the Rossby Centre regional climate model RCA3

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 131-139

  Walther, Alexander ^a   Jeong, Jee Hoon ^a   Nikulin, Grigory ^b   Jones, Colin ^b   Chen, Deliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Convective precipitation; Precipitation diurnal cycle; Regional climate model; Resolution dependency

Indexed keywords

COARSER RESOLUTION; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DIURNAL CYCLE; HORIZONTAL MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; LONG TERM SIMULATION; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; REALISTIC SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RESOLUTION DEPENDENCY; RESOLUTION EFFECTS; SUBGRID SCALE; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WARM SEASONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84858684779     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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