Assessing the transferability of the regional climate model REMO to different coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment (CORDEX) regions

Atmosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-199

  Jacob, Daniela ^a,b   Elizalde, Alberto ^b   Haensler, Andreas ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^b   Kumar, Pankaj ^b   Podzun, Ralf ^b   Rechid, Diana ^b   Remedio, Armelle Reca ^b   Saeed, Fahad ^a   Sieck, Kevin ^b   Teichmann, Claas ^b   Wilhelm, Christof ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CORDEX; K ppen trewartha climate classification; Probability density function skill score; Regional climate simulations; REMO

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; LASERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATIC FEATURES; CORDEX; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOWN-SCALING; EAST AFRICA; ERA INTERIMS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; HOME DOMAIN; INTRA-SEASONAL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL PHYSICS; MODELING PARAMETERS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; REGIONAL DOWNSCALING; REMO; SINGLE MODELS; SKILL SCORE; SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; UPWELLING REGION; WET AND DRY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84874514293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos3010181     Document Type: Article

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