Assessment of the performance of CORDEX regional climate models in simulating East African rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8453-8475

  Endris, Hussen Seid ^a   Omondi, Philip ^b   Jain, Suman ^c   Lennard, Christopher ^a   Hewitson, Bruce ^a   Chang'a, Ladislaus ^d   Awange, J L ^e   Dosio, Alessandro ^f   Ketiem, Patrick ^g   Nikulin, Grigory ^h   Panitz, Hans Jürgen ⁱ   Büchner, Matthias ^j   Stordal, Frode ^k   Tazalika, Lukiya ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre ICPAC   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d TANZANIA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Tanzania)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^g KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^h SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^j POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^l UGANDA NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL AUTHORITY   (Uganda)

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Author keywords

Climate models; Climatology; ENSO; Interannual variability; Model comparison; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ENSO; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL COMPARISON; RAINFALL CLIMATOLOGIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWNSCALING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 84886264096     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00708.1     Document Type: Article

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