Changes in precipitation characteristics over North America for doubled CO2

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Chen, Ming ^a   Mao, Huiting ^a   Talbot, Robert ^a   Pollard, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING SYSTEM (RCMS);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; MODEL SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 28144449052     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024535     Document Type: Article

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