Potential for small scale added value of RCM's downscaled climate change signal

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 601-618

  Di Luca, Alejandro ^a   de Elía, Ramón ^b   Laprise, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Centre ESCER Etude et Simulation du Climat à l'Echelle Regionale   (Canada)

Author keywords

Potential added value climate change signal; Precipitations; Regional climate model; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84874948524     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1415-z     Document Type: Article

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