Climate change uncertainty for daily minimum and maximum temperatures: A model inter-comparison

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lobell, David B ^a   Bonfils, Céline ^a   Duffy, Philip B ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE MODEL; INTER-MODEL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249908111     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028726     Document Type: Article

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