Fingerprints of changes in annual and seasonal precipitation from CMIP5 models over land and ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Sarojini, Beena Balan ^a,b   Stott, Peter A ^c   Black, Emily ^a,b   Polson, Debbie ^d  

^a University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ALIASING; BOREAL WINTERS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; FORCINGS; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; HIGH LATITUDES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SMALL AREA; SUB-SAMPLING; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE;

EID: 84868629253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053373     Document Type: Article

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