Regional variability of climate change hot-spots in East Asia

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 783-792

  Xu, Ying ^a   Gao, Xuejie ^a,b   Giorgi, F ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

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

Author keywords

East Asia; Multi model ensemble; Regional climate change index; Sub regional hot spot

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849122778     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9034-2     Document Type: Article

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