Downscaled climate change projections with uncertainty assessment over India using a high resolution multi-model approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Pankaj ^a   Wiltshire, Andrew ^b   Mathison, Camilla ^b   Asharaf, Shakeel ^c   Ahrens, Bodo ^c   Lucas Picher, Philippe ^d   Christensen, Jens H ^e   Gobiet, Andreas ^f   Saeed, Fahad ^g   Hagemann, Stefan ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^a,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; HighNoon; Indian summer monsoon; Indices; Regional model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; HIGHNOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDICES; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDIA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING;

INDIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGHNOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDICES; REGIONAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84891744679     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.051     Document Type: Article

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