Importance of regional climate model grid spacing for the simulation of heavy precipitation in the colorado headwaters

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4848-4857

  Prein, Andreas F ^a   Holland, Gregory J ^b   Rasmussen, Roy M ^b   Done, James ^b   Ikeda, Kyoko ^b   Clark, Martyn P ^b   Liu, Changhai H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORADO RIVER; FINE-SCALE; GRID MODEL; GRID-SPACINGS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR CORRECTION; HEADWATER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84880671975     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00727.1     Document Type: Article

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