Future change in Southern Hemisphere summertime and wintertime atmospheric blockings simulated using a 20-km-mesh AGCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Matsueda, Mio ^a   Endo, Hirokazu ^a   Mizuta, Ryo ^a  

^a MRI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BLOCKINGS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IPCC SRES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 80052398984     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041758     Document Type: Article

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