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Bookhagen B, Burbank DW (2010) Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge. J Geophys
Res 115(F03019):1–25
Dee DP, Uppala SM, Simmons AJ, Berrisford P, Poli P, Kobayashi S, Andrae U, Balmaseda MA,
Balsamo G, Bauer DP, Bechtold P (2011) The ERA-interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q J R Meteorol Soc 137:553–597
Derksen C, Le Drew E, Goodison B (1998) SSM/I derived snow water equivalent data: the potential for investigating linkages between snow cover and atmospheric circulation. AtmosphereOcean 36(2):95–117
Dimri AP (2014) How robust and (un)certain are regional climate models over the Himalayas?
Cryosphere Discuss 8:6251–6270
Giorgi F, Coppola E, Solmon F, Mariotti L, Sylla MB, Bi X, Elguindi N, Diro GT, Nair V, Giuliani
G, Turuncoglu UU (2012) RegCM4: model description and preliminary tests over multiple
CORDEX domains. Clim Res 52:7–29
Harris I, Jones PD, Osborn TJ, Lister DH (2014) Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations. Int J Climatol 34(3):623–642. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3711
Hong SY, Lim J (2006) The WRF single-moment 6-class microphysics scheme (WSM6). J Korean
Meteorol Soc 42:129–151
Kanamitsu M, Ebisuzaki W, Woollen J, Yang SY, Hnilo JJ, Fiorino M, Potter GL (2002) NCEPDOE AMIP-II reanalysis (R-2). Bull Am Meteorol Soc 83:1631–1643
Kar SC, Rana S (2014) Interannual variability of winter precipitation over Northwest India and
adjoining region: impact of global forcings. Theor Appl Climatol 116(3–4):609–623
Kar SC, Iyengar GR, Bohra AK (2011) Ensemble spread and model systematic errors in the monsoon rainfall forecasts using the NCMRWF global ensemble prediction system. Atmosfera
24(2):173–191
Maussion F, Scherer D, Mölg T, Collier E, Curio J, Finkelnburg R (2014) Precipitation seasonality and variability over the Tibetan Plateau as resolved by the high Asia reanalysis. J Clim
27:1910–1927. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00282.1
Pai DS, Sridhar L, Rajeevan M, Sreejith OP, Satbhai NS, Mukhopadhyay B (2014) Development
of a new high spatial resolution (0.25° × 0.25°) long period (1901-2010) daily gridded rainfall
data set over India and its comparison with existing data sets over the region. Mausam 65:1–8
Sanjay J, Krishnan R, Shrestha AB, Rajbhandari R, Guo-Yu R (2017) Downscaled climate change
projections for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using CORDEX South Asia regional climate
models. Adv Clim Chang Res 8(3):185–198
Schneider U, Becker A, Finger P, Meyer-Christoffer A, Rudolf B, Ziese M (2011) GPCC full data
reanalysis version 6.0 at 0.5°: monthly land-surface precipitation from rain-gauges built on
GTS-based and historic data. Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), Berlin. https://
doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V7_050
Skamaraock WC, Klemp JB, Dudhia J, Gill DO, Barker DM, Wang W, Powers JG (2005) A
description of the advanced research WRF version 2, NCAR technical note. www.wrf-model.
org
Tiwari PR, Kar SC, Mohanty UC, Kumari S, Sinha P, Nair A, Dey S (2014) Skill of precipitation
prediction with GCMs over North India during winter season. Int J Climatol 34(12):3440–3455
Tiwari S, Kar SC, Bhatla R (2016a) Interannual variability of Snow Water Equivalent (SWE)
over Western Himalayas. Pure Appl Geophys 173:1317–1335. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s00024-015-1163-1
High-Resolution Dynamic Downscaling of Winter Climate over the Himalaya