Projected climate change over Southeast Asia simulated using a WRF regional climate model

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-219

  Chotamonsak, Chakrit ^a   Salathé, Eric P ^b   Kreasuwan, Jiemjai ^a   Chantara, Somporn ^a   Siriwitayakorn, Kingkeo ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dynamical downscaling; Regional climate model; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 79954608654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.313     Document Type: Article

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