Implementation of an urban parameterization scheme into the regional climate model COSMO-CLM

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2296-2311

  Trusilova, Kristina ^a   Früh, Barbara ^a   Brienen, Susanne ^a   Walter, Andreas ^a   Masson, Valé ^b   Pigeon, Grégoire ^b   Becker, Paul ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THE STANDARD MODEL; URBAN TEMPERATURES;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARAMETERIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT ISLAND; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBANIZATION;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84886691405     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0209.1     Document Type: Article

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