Climate change scenarios for New Zealand rainfall

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 573-590

  Sansom, John ^a,b   Renwick, James A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; FLOODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RAIN;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARKOV CHAIN; RAINFALL;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34250371353     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2491.1     Document Type: Article

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