Climate change and variability over Malaysia: Gaps in science and research information

Sains Malaysiana

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1355-1366

  Tangang, Fredolin T ^a   Juneng, Liew ^a   Salimun, Ester ^a   Sei, Kwan Meng ^a   Le, Loh Jui ^a   Muhamad, Halimatun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Maritime Continent; Projection; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84867519723     PISSN: 01266039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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