Large biases and inconsistent climate change signals in ENSEMBLES regional projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 859-869

  Turco, Marco ^a   Sanna, Antonella ^a   Herrera, Sixto ^b   Llasat, Maria Carmen ^c   Gutiérrez, José Manuel ^d  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A1B SCENARIOS; LARGE DEVIATIONS; NONLINEAR AMPLIFICATION; TASK-ORIENTED; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84884702642     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0844-y     Document Type: Article

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