Regional projections of future seasonal and annual changes in rainfall and temperature over Australia based on skill-selected AR4 models

Earth Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1-50

  Pitman, A J ^a   Perkins, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate models; Regional assessment

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EVALUATION STRATEGIES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); REGIONAL ASSESSMENT; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

RAIN;

EID: 66949134020     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008EI260.1     Document Type: Article

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