Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 965-975

  Mearns, L O ^a   Sain, S ^a   Leung, L R ^b   Bukovsky, M S ^a   McGinnis, S ^a   Biner, S ^c   Caya, D ^c   Arritt, R W ^d   Gutowski, W ^d   Takle, E ^d   Snyder, M ^e   Jones, R G ^f   Nunes, A M B ^g   Tucker, S ^f   Herzmann, D ^d   McDaniel, L ^a   Sloan, L ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84884699571     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0831-3     Document Type: Article

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