Projection of extreme temperatures in Hong Kong in the 21st century

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Lee, Tsz Cheung ^a   Chan, Kin Yu ^a   Ginn, Wing Lui ^a  

^a HONG KONG OBSERVATORY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projections; Extreme temperature projections; Hong Kong; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 79952477674     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-011-0001-3     Document Type: Article

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