Evaluation of the global climate models in the CMIP5 over the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3187-3208

  Su, Fengge ^a   Duan, Xiaolan ^a,b   Chen, Deliang ^c   Hao, Zhenchun ^d   Cuo, Lan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Fuzhou Planning Design and Research Institute   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRENDS OF PRECIPITATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84878126488     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00321.1     Document Type: Article

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