Multi-year variability or unidirectional trends? Mapping long-term precipitation and temperature changes in continental Southeast Asia using PRECIS regional climate model

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-299

  Lacombe, Guillaume ^a   Hoanh, Chu Thai ^a   Smakhtin, Vladimir ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Laos)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL YIELDS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CHANGE DETECTION; GRID-BASED; HIGHER LATITUDES; LAND AREAS; MANN-KENDALL; MYANMARS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONALITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THAILAND; TREND DETECTION; WET SEASON;

CLIMATE MODELS; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY;

GULF OF THAILAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84862137390     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0359-3     Document Type: Article

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