Weather@home 2: Validation of an improved global-regional climate modelling system

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1849-1872

  Guillod, Benoit P ^a   Jones, Richard G ^a,b   Bowery, Andy ^a   Haustein, Karsten ^a   Massey, Neil R ^a   Mitchell, Daniel M ^c   Otto, Friederike E L ^a   Sparrow, Sarah N ^a   Uhe, Peter ^a   Wallom, David C H ^a   Wilson, Simon ^b   Allen, Myles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HETEROGENEITY; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 85019048738     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1849-2017     Document Type: Article

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