Climate change scenarios for the California region

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2007, Pages

  Cayan, Daniel R ^a,b   Maurer, Edwin P ^c   Dettinger, Michael D ^a,b   Tyree, Mary ^a   Hayhoe, Katharine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; PARALLEL CLIMATE MODEL; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; SNOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84893689654     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9377-6     Document Type: Article

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