Downscaling of climate change in the hawaii region using CMIP5 results: On the choice of the forcing fields*

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 10006-10030

  Lauer, Axel ^a   Zhang, Chunxi ^a   Elison Timm, Oliver ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Climate prediction; Regional models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; INDIVIDUAL MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL MODEL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890236438     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00126.1     Document Type: Article

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