Near future (2016-40) summer precipitation changes over China as projected by a regional climate model (RCM) under the RCP8.5 emissions scenario: Comparison between RCM downscaling and the driving GCM

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 806-818

  Zou, Liwei ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

dynamical downscaling; extreme precipitation; near future precipitation changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876434873     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2209-x     Document Type: Article

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