Evaluation of temperature and precipitation trends and long-term persistence in CMIP5 twentieth-century climate simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4168-4185

  Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Merwade, Venkatesh ^b   Kinter III, James L ^a,c   Niyogi, Dev ^d  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Regional effects; Time series; Trends

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; NON-PARAMETRIC TRENDS; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HADLEY CELL; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84878955703     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00259.1     Document Type: Article

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