Increasing the detectability of external influence on precipitation by correcting feature location in GCMs

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 119, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 12,466-12,478

  Levy, Adam A L ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^b   Ingram, William ^a,c   Lambert, F Hugo ^d   Huntingford, Chris ^e   Allen, Myles ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attribution; bias; detection; location; precipitation; registration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84918540266     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022358     Document Type: Article

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