Spatial and temporal characteristics of summer precipitation over central Europe in a suite of high-resolution climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3501-3518

  Lind, Petter ^a,b   Lindstedt, David ^a,b   Kjellström, Erik ^a,b   Jones, Colin ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate models; Cloud resolving models; Convective parameterization; Extreme events; Mesoscale processes; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTION PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; EXTREME EVENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 85013480083     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0463.1     Document Type: Article

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