Skill, correction, and downscaling of GCM-simulated precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3970-3984

  Eden, Jonathan M ^a   Widmann, Martin ^a   Grawe, David ^b   Rast, Sebastian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias; Climate models; General circulation models; Model errors; Model output statistics; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; BIAS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CROSS VALIDATION; DIRECT ASSESSMENT; DOWN-SCALING; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CORRELATION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ERROR CORRECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862751940     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00254.1     Document Type: Article

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