How well do regional climate models simulate the spatial dependence of precipitation? An application of pair-copula constructions

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2624-2646

  Hobæk Haff, Ingrid ^a   Frigessi, Arnoldo ^a,b   Maraun, Douglas ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NORWAY;

EID: 84928593162     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022748     Document Type: Article

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