Dynamical downscaling techniques: Impacts on regional climate change signals

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3942-3947

  Katzfey, J J ^a   McGregor, J ^a   Nguyen, K ^a   Thatcher, M ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dynamical downscaling; Regional climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL STORAGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

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