Regional climate change experiments over southern South America. I: Present climate

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 533-552

  Solman, Silvina A ^a   Nuñez, Mario N ^a   Cabré, María Fernanda ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Present climate; Regional climate modelling; Southern South America

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 39449121108     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0304-3     Document Type: Article

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