Estimations of hazardous convective weather in the United States using dynamical downscaling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6581-6589

  Gensini, Vittorio A ^a   Mote, Thomas L ^b  

^a Academic Alternatives and Instructional Support   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CONVECTIVE WEATHER; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SEASONAL INTEGRATION; SEVERE CONVECTIONS;

HAZARDS;

EID: 84906879075     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00777.1     Document Type: Article

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