Future projections of East Asian climate change from multi-AOGCM ensembles of IPCC SRES scenario simulations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1187-1211

  Min, Seung Ki ^a   Park, E Hyung ^b   Kwon, Won Tae ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 7244243897     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.1187     Document Type: Article

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