Autumn precipitation trends over southern hemisphere midlatitudes as simulated by CMIP5 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8341-8356

  Purich, Ariaan ^a   Cowan, Tim ^a   Min, Seung Ki ^b   Cai, Wenju ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Climate change; General circulation models; Hadley circulation; Precipitation; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR MODE; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CIRCULATION; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CELL; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886294027     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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