Bias reduction in decadal predictions of West African monsoon rainfall using regional climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1715-1735

  Paxian, A ^a   Sein, D ^b,c   Panitz, H J ^d   Warscher, M ^e   Breil, M ^d   Engel, T ^d   Todter J ^f   Krause, A ^e   Cabos Narvaez, W D ^g   Fink, A H ^d   Ahrens, B ^f   Kunstmann, H ^e   Jacob, D ^h   Paeth, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; EVAPORATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); GUINEA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84959259885     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024143     Document Type: Article

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