Assessing the regional variability of GCM simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Cai, Ximing ^a   Wang, Dingbao ^a   Zhu, Tingju ^b   Ringler, Claudia ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION MAPS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL LEVELS; HINDCASTS; LAND COVERS; POLICY-MAKERS; REGIONAL VARIABILITIES; SKILL SCORES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HINDCASTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 62749098672     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036443     Document Type: Article

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