Warming patterns over the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent lowlands derived from elevation- and bias-corrected ERA-Interim data

Climate Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 235-246

  Gerlitz, Lars ^a   Conrad, Olaf ^a   Thomas, Axel ^b   Böhner, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GIS Service GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate regionalisation; Geographical information systems; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION; REGIONALISATION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUMMER; WARMING;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84891906344     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01193     Document Type: Article

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