Assessment of the ENSEMBLES regional climate models in the representation of precipitation variability and extremes over Portugal

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Soares, Pedro M M ^a,b   Cardoso, Rita M ^a   Miranda, Pedro M A ^a   Viterbo, Pedro ^a,c   Belo Pereira, Margarida ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE INDEX; DATA SETS; EXTREME EVENTS; GRID POINTS; LOCAL CLIMATE; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NEGATIVE BIAS; PORTUGAL; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTREME EVENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84859909983     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016768     Document Type: Article

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