Multi-model climate change projections for India under representative concentration pathways

Current Science

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 791-802

  Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar ^a   Joshi, Jaideep ^b   Jayaraman, Mathangi ^a   Bala, G ^a   Ravindranath, N H ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation planning; Climate change; Representative concentration pathways; Temperature and rainfall projections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869125567     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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