A regional climate model downscaling projection of China future climate change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1871-1884

  Liu, Shuyan ^a,b   Gao, Wei ^b,c   Liang, Xin Zhong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

CCSM; China; Climate change; Emission scenarios; RegCM3; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CHINA; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 84884703165     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1632-5     Document Type: Article

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