Climate change scenarios for global impacts studies

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Hulme, Mike ^a   Mitchell, John ^b   Ingram, William ^b   Lowe, Jason ^b   Johns, Tim ^b   New, Mark ^a   Viner, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change scenarios; HadCM2; HadCM3; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0032739743     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(99)00015-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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