Initial NarClIm evaluation

Proceedings - 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2765-2771

  Evans, J P ^a   Fita, L ^a   Argueso D ^a   Liu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Model; Regional climate; WRF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 85080941570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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