Extreme climatic events over Vietnam from observational data and RegCM3 projections

Climate Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-100

  Ho, Thi Minh Ha ^a   Phan, Van Tan ^a   Le, Nhu Quan ^b   Nguyen, Quang Trung ^a  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Detection; Extreme events; RegCM; Regional climate model; Scenarios; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENTS; REGCM; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; SCENARIOS; VIET NAM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; STORMS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIRFLOW; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORICAL RECORD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

VIET NAM;

EID: 80054074007     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01021     Document Type: Article

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