Climate change over the Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputra River Basin in the 21st century as simulated by a high resolution regional climate model

Quaternary International

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-168

  Shi, Ying ^a   Gao, Xuejie ^a   Zhang, Dongfeng ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

BRAHMANI BASIN; BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; INDIA; ORISSA;

EID: 79960716962     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.01.041     Document Type: Article

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