Mid-twenty-first century warm season climate change in the Central United States. Part I: Regional and global model predictions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 551-568

  Patricola, Christina M ^a,c   Cook, Kerry H ^b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central United States; Climate change; Downscaling; Great Plains; Midwest; Model intercomparison; NARCCAP; Precipitation; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

GREAT PLAINS; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874948808     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1605-8     Document Type: Article

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