Simulated and projected climate extremes in the Zhujiang River Basin, South China, using the regional climate model COSMO-CLM

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2988-3001

  Fischer, Thomas ^a,b   Menz, Christoph ^c   Su, Buda ^a,d   Scholten, Thomas ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CCLM; China; Climate extremes; Projection; Simulation; Validation; Zhujiang

Indexed keywords

CCLM; CHINA; CLIMATE EXTREMES; PROJECTION; SIMULATION; VALIDATION; ZHUJIANG;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84887610885     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3643     Document Type: Article

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