The role of the simulation setup in a long-term high-resolution climate change projection for the southern African region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 153-169

  Haensler, Andreas ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^b   Jacob, Daniela ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 80054115727     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0420-1     Document Type: Article

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