A study of changes in rainfall and temperature patterns at four cities and corresponding meteorological subdivisions over coastal regions of India

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-194

  Dash, S K ^a   Saraswat, Vaishali ^a   Panda, S K ^a   Sharma, Neha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Extreme temperature events; Future projections; Gridded temperature and precipitation data; IPCC model simulations; Taylor diagram

Indexed keywords

EXTREME TEMPERATURE EVENTS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GRIDDED TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION DATUM; MODEL SIMULATION; TAYLOR DIAGRAMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE; DIAGRAM; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING;

INDIA;

EID: 84880937601     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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