Amplified warming projections for high altitude regions of the northern hemisphere mid-latitudes from CMIP5 models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rangwala, Imtiaz ^a,b   Sinsky, Eric ^a   Miller, James R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

amplified; CMIP5; GCM; high elevation; Himalaya; maximum; mid latitude; minimum; mountain; Rocky Mountains; surface; temperature; Tibetan Plateau; warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SUN; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE;

AMPLIFIED; CMIP5; GCM; HIGH ELEVATION; HIMALAYAS; MAXIMUM; MID-LATITUDE; MINIMUM; MOUNTAIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WARMING;

LANDFORMS;

ABSORPTION; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84880901338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024040     Document Type: Article

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