Climate change projections over South America in the late 21st century with the 20 and 60 km mesh Meteorological Research Institute atmospheric general circulation model (MRI-AGCM)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Kusunoki, Shoji ^a   Nakaegawa, Tosiyuki ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; FLOODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AMAZON RIVER; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DRY SEASONS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HYDROGRAPHS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESH MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; PARANA RIVER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASON PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; WET SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; HYDROGRAPH; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79953018118     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014920     Document Type: Article

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