Precipitation differences amongst GCMs used for the U.S. National Assessment

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1327-1339

  Felzer, Benjamin ^a   Heard, Preston ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Infiltration and soil moisture; Meteorology climatology; Modeling statistics; Ocean studies; Simulations; Surface water hydrology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MECHANICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033369766     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04218.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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