Evaluation and bias correction of regional climate model results using model evaluation measures

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1670-1684

  Schoetter, Robert ^a   Hoffmann, Peter ^a   Rechid, Diana ^b   Schlünzen, K Heinke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climatology; Model evaluation performance; Model output statistics

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANNUAL CYCLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GERMANY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIT RATE; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LOCAL MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; OBJECTIVE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; TOTAL CLOUD COVER; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WIND VELOCITY;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 84868133257     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0161.1     Document Type: Article

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