The tibetan plateau summer monsoon in the CMIP5 simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7747-7766

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Hu, Jun ^a,b   Xiao, Zhixiang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate models; Monsoons; Multidecadal variability; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MONSOONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84884935842     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00685.1     Document Type: Article

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