Climate change in the South American monsoon system: Present climate and CMIP5 projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6660-6678

  Jones, Charles ^a   Carvalho, Leila M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATIC FEATURES; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; MODEL SIMULATION; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEASONAL AMPLITUDES; SOUTHERN BRAZIL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84883149682     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00412.1     Document Type: Article

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