Using climate impacts indicators to evaluate climate model ensembles: Temperature suitability of premium winegrape cultivation in the United States

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 709-729

  Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a,b   Scherer, Martin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate impacts; CMIP3; NARCCAP; RegCM3; Winegrape

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84874950079     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1377-1     Document Type: Article

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