Influences of a shift in North Pacific storm tracks on western North American precipitation under global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Salathé Jr , Eric P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DOWNSCALING MODELS; PACIFIC COASTS; TERRAIN;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM; TRACKING;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34047222455     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026882     Document Type: Article

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