Construction of climate change scenarios for a tropical monsoon region

Climate Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-52

  Das, L ^a,b   Lohar, D ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

Author keywords

Composite scenarios; Monsoon; Regional anomalies; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; RAINFALL;

EID: 30444445432     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr030039     Document Type: Article

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