Climate and climate change over North America as simulated by the Canadian RCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3112-3132

  Plummer, David A ^a,c   Caya, D ^b   Frigon, A ^b   Cote H ^b   Giguere M ^b   Paquin, D ^b   Biner, S ^b   Harvey, R ^a   De Elia, R ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Climate Simulations Team   (Canada)

^c Consortium Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CANADIAN REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (CRCM); GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746858450     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3769.1     Document Type: Article

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