Extreme climate events in China: IPCC-AR4 model evaluation and projection

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 385-401

  Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Song, Jie ^a,b   Li, Laurent ^a,c   Chen, Weilin ^a   Wang, Zhifu ^a   Wang, Ji ^a  

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

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE INDEX; COASTAL REGIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; FROST DAYS; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; HEAT WAVES; MODEL EVALUATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTHWEST CHINA; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SURFACE STATION; TEMPERATURE INDEX; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WARM NIGHTS; YANGTZE RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; GROWING SEASON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 83055176731     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0090-0     Document Type: Article

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