Impacts of bias correction of lateral boundary conditions on regional climate projections in West Africa

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2521-2538

  Yu, Miao ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Downscaling; Regional climate prediction; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84899965186     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1853-2     Document Type: Article

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