The weather@home regional climate modelling project for Australia and New Zealand

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3161-3176

  Black, Mitchell T ^a   Karoly, David J ^a   Rosier, Suzanne M ^b   Dean, Sam M ^b   King, Andrew D ^a   Massey, Neil R ^c   Sparrow, Sarah N ^c   Bowery, Andy ^c   Wallom, David ^c   Jones, Richard G ^c,d   Otto, Friederike E L ^c   Allen, Myles R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84988504392     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-3161-2016     Document Type: Article

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