Comparing precipitation bias correction methods for high-resolution regional climate simulations using COSMO-CLM: Effects on extreme values and climate change signal

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 511-529

  Gutjahr, Oliver ^a   Heinemann, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887319033     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0834-z     Document Type: Article

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