The importance of lateral boundaries, surface forcing and choice of domain size for dynamical downscaling of global climate simulations

Atmosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 67-95

  Køltzow, Morten A Ø ^a   Iversen, Trond ^a,b   Haugen, Jan Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Domain size; Dynamical downscaling; Lateral and surface forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INTEGRATION; LASERS; SEA LEVEL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; DOMAIN SIZE; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; LATERAL BOUNDARY; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOW RESOLUTION; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE FORCING;

DATA INTEGRATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORWAY;

EID: 84874580045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos2020067     Document Type: Article

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