On correcting precipitation as simulated by the regional climate model COSMO-CLM with daily rain gauge observations

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 31-42

  Lindau, Ralf ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84871933695     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-012-0215-7     Document Type: Article

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