Reconstruction of high resolution atmospheric fields for Northern Europe using analog-upscaling

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1681-1703

  Schenk, F ^a,b   Zorita, E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPSCALING;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84864416295     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1681-2012     Document Type: Article

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