Reliability of regional climate model trends

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Oldenborgh, G J ^a   Doblas Reyes, F J ^b   Drijfhout, S S ^a   Hawkins, E ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate response; GCM; verification

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; VERIFICATION;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE RESPONSE; FORECAST PROBABILITIES; GCM; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; OBSERVED PROBABILITIES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84876186214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014055     Document Type: Article

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