Daily relative humidity projections in an Indian river basin for IPCC SRES scenarios

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 85-104

  Anandhi, Aavudai ^a,b   Srinivas, V V ^a   Kumar, D Nagesh ^a   Nanjundiah, Ravi S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RIVER BASIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; INDIA; INDIAN RIVER; KARNATAKA; MALAPRABHA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859213017     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0511-z     Document Type: Article

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