A rainfall calibration methodology for impacts modelling based on spatial mapping

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 674, 2013, Pages 1389-1401

  Di Giuseppe, Francesca ^a   Molteni, Franco ^a   Tompkins, Adrian M ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Africa; Bias correction; Empirical orthogonal function

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BIAS CORRECTION; CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; END-PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SPATIAL MAPPING; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; MAPPING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THRESHOLD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84880702456     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2019     Document Type: Article

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