Synoptic-statistical approach to regional downscaling of IPCC twenty-first-century climate projections: Seasonal rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4261-4280

  Timm, Oliver ^a,c   Diaz, Henry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; DOWN-SCALING; DRY SEASONS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HEAVY RAINFALL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MODEL SIMULATION; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS; REANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASON PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SELECTION CRITERIA; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TRADE WINDS; WET SEASON; WIND FIELD; WINTER MONTHS;

DROUGHT; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRADE WIND; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WESTERLY; WIND FIELD;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69249097797     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2833.1     Document Type: Article

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