A new regional climate model operating at the meso-gamma scale: Performance over Europe

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lindstedt, David ^a,b   Lind, Petter ^a,b   Kjellström, Erik ^a,b   Jones, Colin ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; Grey zone; HARMONIE; High resolution; Precipitation extremes; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84930641523     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v67.24138     Document Type: Article

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