Causes of robust seasonal land precipitation changes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6698-6715

  Polson, Debbie ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^b   Osborn, Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; LAND PRECIPITATION CHANGE; TEMPORAL COVERAGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AEROSOLS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84883184669     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00474.1     Document Type: Article

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