Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5 ensemble

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 345-357

  Kharin, V V ^a   Zwiers, F W ^b   Zhang, X ^a   Wehner, M ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN PRECIPITATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; MODEL DISCREPANCIES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE RETREAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84879189415     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0705-8     Document Type: Article

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