Probabilistic projections of climate change over China under the SRES A1B scenario using 28 AOGCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4741-4756

  Chen, Weilin ^a   Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Li, Laurent ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Probability models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CORRESPONDING WEIGHTS; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EMISSION SCENARIO; HIGH PROBABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL EVALUATION; PROBABILISTIC PROJECTIONS; PROBABILITY MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; RIVER BASINS; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; UNIFIED MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EMISSION INVENTORY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 80053135827     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4102.1     Document Type: Article

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