Regional assessment of GCM-simulated current climate over northern Canada

Arctic

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-128

  Bonsal, Barrie R ^a   Prowse, Terry D ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change impacts; Global climate models; Gridded climate data; Northern Canada; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CURRENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 33746470785     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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