Quantifying the overall added value of dynamical downscaling and the contribution from different spatial scales

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1575-1590

  Di Luca, Alejandro ^a   Argüeso, Daniel ^a,b   Evans, Jason P ^a,b   De Elía, Ramón ^c   Laprise, René ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^c Consortium Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VALUATION;

EID: 84959276482     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024009     Document Type: Article

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