Possible impacts of climate change on freezing rain using downscaled future climate scenarios: Updated for eastern Canada

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-21

  Cheng, Chad Shouquan ^a   Li, Guilong ^a   Auld, Heather ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Freezing rain; Statistical downscaling; Synoptic weather typing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; FREEZING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84055176309     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2011.555728     Document Type: Article

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