Analyzing projected changes and trends of temperature and precipitation in the southern USA from 16 downscaled global climate models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 345-360

  Liu, Lu ^a,b   Hong, Yang ^a   Hocker, James E ^b   Shafer, Mark A ^b   Carter, Lynne M ^c   Gourley, Jonathan J ^d   Bednarczyk, Christopher N ^a   Yong, Bin ^a,e   Adhikari, Pradeep ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBAN CLIMATE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EL PASO; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NASHVILLE; OKLAHOMA COUNTY; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TENNESSEE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864465135     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0567-9     Document Type: Article

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