Intermodel variability and mechanism attribution of central and southeastern U.S. anomalous cooling in the twentieth century as simulated by CMIP5 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6215-6237

  Pan, Zaitao ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^b   Kumar, Sanjiv ^c   Gao, Zhiqiu ^d   Kinter, James ^c  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MODEL INTER COMPARISONS; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COOLING; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878973883     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00559.1     Document Type: Article

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