Regional and seasonal intercomparison of CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate model ensembles for temperature and precipitation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2491-2518

  Kumar, Devashish ^a   Kodra, Evan ^a   Ganguly, Auroop R ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate projections; CMIP3 models; CMIP5 models; Model evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893188054     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2070-3     Document Type: Article

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