Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 697-700

  O'Gorman, Paul A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84867023704     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1568     Document Type: Article

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