Use of a stochastic weather generator in the development of climate change scenarios

Climatic Change

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 397-414

  Semenov, Mikhail A ^a   Barrow, Elaine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GCM; STOCHASTIC MODELLING;

EID: 0030619730     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005342632279     Document Type: Article

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