On regional dynamical downscaling for the assessment and projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Tasmania, Australia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 3145-3165

  White, Christopher J ^a   McInnes, Kathleen L ^b   Cechet, Robert P ^c   Corney, Stuart P ^a   Grose, Michael R ^a   Holz, Gregory K ^a   Katzfey, Jack J ^b   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian climate; Climate change; Extremes; Observations; Projections; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84888028449     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1718-8     Document Type: Article

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