Synoptic climatology and the general circulation model

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-109

  Sheridan, Scott C ^a   Lee, Cameron C ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; GCM; Reanalysis; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; METHODOLOGY; SELF ORGANIZATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 77949392001     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309357012     Document Type: Article

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