Reduction of future monsoon precipitation over China: Comparison between a high resolution RCM simulation and the driving GCM

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 73-86

  Gao, Xuejie ^a,b   Shi, Y ^a   Song, R ^a   Giorgi, F ^b   Wang, Y ^a   Zhang, D ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; MOISTURE FLUX; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 50649097184     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-008-0296-5     Document Type: Article

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