Projecting rainfall changes over the South American Altiplano

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4577-4583

  Minvielle, Marie ^a   Garreaud, René D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation models; Precipitation; South America

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ANDES; FREE TROPOSPHERE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH ELEVATION; LOW RESOLUTION; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SIMPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATION DATA; SUMMER SEASON; ZONAL FLOWS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ELEVATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY; ZONAL FLOW;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES;

EID: 80053168225     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00051.1     Document Type: Article

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