Regional climate models downscaling in the Alpine area with multimodel superensemble

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2017-2028

  Cane, D ^a   Barbarino, S ^a   Renier, L A ^a,b   Ronchi, C ^a  

^a ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

^b IPLA Istituto per le Piante da Legno e l'Ambiente   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC SCENARIOS; DAILY TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; WEATHER FORECAST MODELS;

LASERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEDMONT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84879067012     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-2017-2013     Document Type: Article

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