How the "best" models project the future precipitation change in China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 773-782

  Chen, Huopo ^a,b,c   Sun, Jianqi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

"best" models; Ensemble; Projection; Summer precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849086499     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8211-7     Document Type: Article

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