Regional climate model projections and uncertainties of U.S. summer heat waves

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4447-4458

  Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a,b   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b   Zhu, Jinhong ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; HEAT WAVES; HIGH PROBABILITY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SUMMER HEAT; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEVERE WEATHER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958082864     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3349.1     Document Type: Article

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