Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 425-436

  Hayhoe, Katharine ^a,b   Wake, Cameron ^c   Anderson, Bruce ^d   Liang, Xin Zhong ^e   Maurer, Edwin ^f   Zhu, Jinhong ^e   Bradbury, James ^g   Degaetano, Art ^h   Stoner, Anne Marie ⁱ   Wuebbles, Donald ⁱ  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOS Research & Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^f Santa Clara University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^h Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; General circulation model; Greenhouse gas emission scenarios; Northeast United States

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44149090971     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-007-9133-2     Document Type: Article

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