The usefulness of different realizations for the model evaluation of regional trends in heat waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5793-5797

  Perkins, S E ^a   Fischer, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Australia; climate model; evaluation; heat waves; trends

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EVALUATION; HEAT WAVES; INDIVIDUAL MODELING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WAVE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84887553872     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057833     Document Type: Article

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