Model-based estimation of dynamic effect on twenty-first-century precipitation for swiss river basins

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2897-2913

  Rudolph, James V ^a   Friedrich, Katja ^a   Germann, Urs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate classification regimes; Climate prediction; Complex terrain; General circulation models; Precipitation; Radars radar observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CONSTANT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION; RIVER BASINS; SWITZERLAND; SYNOPTIC WEATHER PATTERNS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPLEX TERRAIN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84859986597     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00191.1     Document Type: Article

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