Australia's CMIP5 submission using the CSIRO-Mk3.6 model

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Jeffrey, Stephen ^a   Rotstayn, Leon ^b   Collier, Mark ^b   Dravitzki, Stacey ^b   Hamalainen, Carlo ^a   Moeseneder, Chris ^c   Wong, Kenneth ^a   Syktus, Jozef ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84882324891     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.001     Document Type: Article

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