Biases and model agreement in projections of climate extremes over the tropical Pacific

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 1-36

  Perkins, Sarah E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extremes; GCMs; Pacific region; Projections; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856207057     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011EI395.1     Document Type: Article

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