Precipitation bias correction of very high resolution regional climate models

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4379-4388

  Argueso D ^a   Evans, J P ^a   Fita, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS-CORRECTION METHODS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84887380923     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4379-2013     Document Type: Article

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