Probabilistic projections of anthropogenic climate change impacts on precipitation for the mid-Atlantic region of the United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5273-5291

  Ning, Liang ^a   Mann, Michael E ^a   Crane, Robert ^a   Wagener, Thorsten ^b   Najjar, Raymond G ^a   Singh, Riddhi ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate prediction; Climate variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; Precipitation; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; GLOBAL WARMING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DOWN-SCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MID-ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOSTATISTICS; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

MID-ATLANTIC STATES; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865104358     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00565.1     Document Type: Article

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