Regional Dynamical Downscaling and the CORDEX Initiative

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 467-490

  Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Gutowski, William J ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; CORDEX; Downscaling added value; Dynamical downscaling; High resolution modeling; Model evaluation; RCM; Regional climate; Regional climate modeling; Regional Earth system modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET);

ADDED VALUES; CORDEX; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84946838214     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021217     Document Type: Review

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