Global precipitation trends in 1900-2005 from a reconstruction and coupled model simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1679-1689

  Ren, Li ^a   Arkin, Phillip ^a   Smith, Thomas M ^a,b   Shen, Samuel S P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; CMIP5; global precipitation trends; historical reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84880874992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50212     Document Type: Article

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