Evaluation of WRF Mean and Extreme Precipitation over Spain: Present Climate (1970-99)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4883-4895

  Argüeso, Daniel ^b   Hidalgo Muñoz, José Manuel ^a   Ga ́ Miz Fortis, Sonia Raquel ^a   Esteban Parra, MaríA Jesú S ^a   Castro Díez, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Climate models; Europe; Model evaluation performance; Precipitation; Regional models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE INFORMATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; DATA SETS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH ORDER STATISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN LIVES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL MODEL; SUBSTANTIAL ERRORS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 84863453601     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00276.1     Document Type: Article

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