Evaluation of continental precipitation in 20th century climate simulations: The utility of multimodel statistics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Phillips, Thomas J ^a,b   Gleckler, Peter J ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC); MULTIMODEL STATISTICS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33646497243     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004313     Document Type: Article

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