Regional climate model projections for the State of Washington

Climatic Change

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 51-75

  Salathé Jr , Eric P ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^b   Qian, Yun ^b   Zhang, Yongxin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL MODELS; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; HEAT WAVES; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WARM NIGHTS; WASHINGTON; WEATHER PATTERNS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; GROWING SEASON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77957189293     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9849-y     Document Type: Article

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