Uncertainties in climate change prediction: El Niño-Southern Oscillation and monsoons

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 265-288

  Paeth, Heiko ^a   Scholten, Anja ^b   Friederichs, Petra ^c   Hense, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate change; ENSO; model intercomparison; monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 38349136746     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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