Potential future changes in the Indian summer monsoon due to greenhouse warming: Analysis of mechanisms in a global time-slice experiment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 389-414

  May, W ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONSOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2342420133     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0389-2     Document Type: Article

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