Dependence of precipitation scaling patterns on emission scenarios for representative concentration pathways

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8868-8879

  Ishizaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Shiogama, Hideo ^a   Emori, Seita ^a   Yokohata, Tokuta ^a   Nozawa, Toru ^a   Takahashi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ogura, Tomoo ^a   Yoshimori, Masakazu ^b   Nagashima, Tatsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate models

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EMISSIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; POLAR AMPLIFICATIONS; PRECIPITATION SCALING; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE;

CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84888036198     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00540.1     Document Type: Article

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