How well can a convection-permitting climate model reproduce decadal statistics of precipitation, temperature and cloud characteristics?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3043-3061

  Brisson, Erwan ^a,b   Van Weverberg, Kwinten ^c,d   Demuzere, Matthias ^a   Devis, Annemarie ^a   Saeed, Sajjad ^a   Stengel, Martin ^e   van Lipzig, Nicole P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud properties; Convection permitting climate model; COSMO CLM; Extremes; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; EXTREME EVENT; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84957674956     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3012-z     Document Type: Article

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