Double-nested dynamical downscaling experiments over the Tibetan Plateau and their projection of climate change under two RCP scenarios

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1278-1290

  Ji, Zhenming ^a   Kang, Shichang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate prediction; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SIMULATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; LASERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DOWNSCALING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84877642567     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0155.1     Document Type: Article

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