Spectral nudging in regional climate modelling: How strongly should we nudge?

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 668, 2012, Pages 1808-1813

  Omrani, Hiba ^a   Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Large small scale errors; Potential vorticity; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DOWN-SCALING; DRIVING FIELD; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTEGRATION TIME; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-RESOLVED; TRIAL AND ERROR; UNCERTAINTIES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862136013     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1894     Document Type: Article

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