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A new regional climate model operating at the meso-gamma scale: performance over Europe

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Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.24138 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 24138 - 24138
Submitted on: Feb 20, 2014
Accepted on: Dec 2, 2014
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
grey-zone,
HARMONIE,
high resolution,
dynamical downscaling,
regional climate model,
precipitation extremes

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