Assessment of gridded observations used for climate model validation in the Mediterranean region: The HyMeX and MED-CORDEX framework

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Flaounas, Emmanouil ^a   Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Borga, Marco ^b   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^c   Delrieu, Guy ^d   Morin, Efrat ^e   Tartari, Gianni ^f   Toffolon, Roberta ^f  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

CORDEX; E OBS; HyMex; model validation; uncertainties assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862121787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024017     Document Type: Article

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