Changes in the extremes of the climate simulated by CGC GCM2 under CO 2 doubling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2200-2222

  Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Kharin, Viatcheslav V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

INDIA;

EID: 0032462975     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2200:CITEOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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