Perceptible changes in regional precipitation in a future climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Mahlstein, Irina ^a   Portmann, Robert W ^a   Daniel, John S ^a   Solomon, Susan ^b,c   Knutti, Reto ^d  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

20TH CENTURY; A1B SCENARIOS; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLIMATIC REGIONS; DRY SEASONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RELATIVE IMPACT; SPATIAL SCALE; WET SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84857963043     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050738     Document Type: Article

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