Changes in seasonal land precipitation during the latter twentieth-century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Noake, K ^a   Polson, D ^a   Hegerl, G ^a   Zhang, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; BOREAL SPRING; DATA SETS; LAND PRECIPITATION CHANGE; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTI-MODEL; POINT LOCATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; SEASONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; CLIMATE FORCING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863115434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050405     Document Type: Article

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