Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: Climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1829-1848

  Marengo, Jose A ^a   Chou, Sin Chan ^a   Kay, Gillian ^b   Alves, Lincoln M ^a   Pesquero, J F ^a   Soares, Wagner R ^a   Santos, Daniel C ^a   Lyra, A A ^a   Sueiro, Gustavo ^a   Betts, Richard ^b   Chagas, Diego J ^a   Gomes, Jorge L ^a   Bustamante, Josiane F ^a   Tavares, Priscila ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon region; Climate change; Downscaling; South America

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL; ECUADOR; PARANA BASIN; PERU; SAO FRANCISCO BASIN;

EID: 84860343606     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1155-5     Document Type: Article

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