Full access dynamical downscaling of ERA-interim temperature and precipitation for Alaska

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 635-654

  Bieniek, Peter A ^a   Bhatt, Uma S ^a   Walsh, John E ^a   Rupp, T Scott ^a   Zhang, Jing ^b   Krieger, Jeremy R ^a   Lader, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate variability; Model evaluation performance; Regional models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; SITE SELECTION;

ARCTIC; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL MODEL; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961603295     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0153.1     Document Type: Article

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