North American climate in CMIP5 experiments: Part III: Assessment of twenty-first-century projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2230-2270

  Maloney, Eric D ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^b   Chang, Edmund ^c   Colle, Brian ^c   Fu, Rong ^d   Geil, Kerrie L ^e   Hu, Qi ^f   Jiang, Xianan ^g   Johnson, Nathaniel ^h   Karnauskas, Kristopher B ⁱ   Kinter, James ^j,k   Kirtman, Benjamin ^l   Kumar, Sanjiv ^k   Langenbrunner, Baird ^m   Lombardo, Kelly ⁿ   Long, Lindsey N ^o,p   Mariotti, Annarita ^q   Meyerson, Joyce E ^m   Mo, Kingtse C ^p   Neelin, J David ^m   Pan, Zaitao ^r   Seager, Richard ^b   Serra, Yolande ^e   Seth, Anji ⁿ   Sheffield, Justin ^s   Stroeve, Julienne ^t   Thibeault, Jeanne ⁿ   Xie, Shang Ping ^h   Wang, Chunzai ^u   Wyman, Bruce ^q   Zhao, Ming ^q   more..

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g Los Angeles   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^j GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^o Wyle Science Technology and Engineering   (United States)

^p CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^q NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^r Saint Louis University   (United States)

^s Princeton University   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^u ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Climate prediction; North America

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; NORTH AMERICA; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896096760     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00273.1     Document Type: Article

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