Simulations of present and future climates in the western United States with four nested regional climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 873-895

  Duffy, Philip B ^a   Arritt, R W ^b   Coquard, J ^a   Gutowski, W ^b   Han, J ^c   Iorio, J ^a   Kim, J ^d   Leung, L R ^e   Roads, J ^f   Zeledon, E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GREENHOUSES GASES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; NEAR-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646002094     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3669.1     Document Type: Article

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