Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1419-1444

  Kharin, Viatcheslav V ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; TROPICS;

COLD EXTREMES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (CO); WARM EXTREMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 34247640720     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4066.1     Document Type: Article

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