Temperature change signals in northern Canada: Convergence of statistical downscaling results using two driving GCMs

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1623-1641

  Gachon, Philippe ^a,b   Dibike, Yonas ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Consortium on Regional Climate and Adaptation to Climate Change ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate scenarios; Convergence of temperature signal; Global climate models; Northern Canada; Statistical downscaling; Temperature change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; SNOW COVER; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING (SD); TEMPERATURE CHANGE SIGNAL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 35348956499     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1582     Document Type: Article

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