Projection of temperature over Korea using an MM5 regional climate simulation

Climate Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 241-248

  Koo, Gyo Sook ^a   Boo, Kyung On ^a   Kwon, Won Tae ^a  

^a Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

A1B scenario; Future projection; Global warming; MM5

Indexed keywords

A1B SCENARIO; ANNUAL MEAN; DOWNSCALING SIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; HUMIDITY CHANGE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MEAN VALUES; MOISTURE HOLDING CAPACITY; PEAK VALUES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL WARMING; MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

KOREA;

EID: 74349106764     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00825     Document Type: Article

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