Great plains precipitation and its SST links in twentieth-century climate simulations, and twenty-first-and twenty-second-century climate projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6409-6429

  Ruiz Barradas, Alfredo ^a   Nigam, Sumant ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE SIMULATION; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; LAND SURFACE; ME-XICO; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPRING PRECIPITATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TELECONNECTIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 78650547975     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3173.1     Document Type: Article

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