Considerations in the selection of global climate models for regional climate projections: The Arctic as a case study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1583-1597

  Overland, James E ^a   Wang, Muyin ^b   Bond, Nicholas A ^b   Walsh, John E ^c   Kattsov, Vladimir M ^d   Chapman, William L ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate models; Greenhouse gases; Model evaluation performance; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CONTINENTAL SCALE; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION METRICS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL SIMULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL MODEL; REGIONAL SCALE; SELECTION CRITERIA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 79955153832     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3462.1     Document Type: Article

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