Mediterranean precipitation climatology, seasonal cycle, and trend as simulated by CMIP5

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Kelley, Colin ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRYING;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FORCED COMPONENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HOT SPOT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN PRECIPITATION; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL PREDICTION; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WET WINTERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPORAL CYCLE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84868622958     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053416     Document Type: Article

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