Temporal- and spatial-scale dependence of three CMIP3 climate models in simulating the surface temperature trend in the twentieth century

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2456-2470

  Sakaguchi, Koichi ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Brunke, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate prediction; Decadal variability; General circulation models; Model evaluation performance; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; MODEL TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84859308892     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00106.1     Document Type: Article

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