A future climate scenario of regional changes in extreme climate events over China using the PRECIS climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Yong ^a,b,e   Xu, Yinlong ^a   Dong, Wenjie ^c   Cao, Lijuan ^b,c,e   Sparrow, Michael ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 34548039955     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027229     Document Type: Article

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