Change of extreme events of temperature and precipitation over Korea using regional projection of future climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Boo, Kyung On ^a   Kwon, Won Tae ^a   Baek, Hee Jeong ^a  

^a Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COLD EVENTS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; HOT EVENTS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 33644624047     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023378     Document Type: Article

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