Evaluation of present and future North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) regional climate simulations over the southeast United States

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sobolowski, S ^a,b   Pavelsky, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RATING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENERGY USE; FUTURE CLIMATE; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; NATURAL BACKGROUNDS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICAN; POWER GRIDS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SEASONAL PERFORMANCE; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SUMMER SEASON; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENERGY USE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855708233     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016430     Document Type: Article

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