Uncertainties in monsoon precipitation projections over China: Results from two high-resolution RCM simulations

Climate Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 213-226

  Gao, Xuejie ^a   Shi, Ying ^a   Zhang, Dongfeng ^a,b   Wu, Jia ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^c   Ji, Zhenming ^a   Wang, Yongguang ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b Shanxi Climate Center   (China)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projections; Monsoon; Precipitation; Regional climate model; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; DOMINANT FACTOR; EAST ASIA; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL MODELS; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INTERNAL MODELS; LATERAL BOUNDARY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MONSOON; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON SEASON; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; SOUTHWEST CHINA; THEORETICAL PHYSICS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME SLICE; TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; UNCERTAINTY; WARMING PATTERNS; WESTERN CHINA;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84861608485     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01084     Document Type: Article

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