Transient future climate over the western united states using a regional climate model

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Snyder, Mark A ^a   Sloan, Lisa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Regional modeling

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC BUDGETS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

SEA ICE; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77249142881     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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