Squeezing information from regional climate change projections - results from a synthesis of CMIP5 results for south-east Queensland, Australia

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 609-619

  Smith, Ian ^a   Syktus, Jozef ^a   McAlpine, Clive ^a   Wong, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; DRY EVENTS; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-MODEL; QUEENSLAND; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; WET AND DRY; WET AND DRY SEASONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84888255170     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0956-4     Document Type: Article

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