Assessing future changes in seasonal climatic extremes in the Ganges river basin using an ensemble of regional climate models

Climatic Change

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 273-286

  Mittal, Neha ^a   Mishra, Ashok ^a   Singh, Rajendra ^a   Kumar, Pankaj ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTREME TEMPERATURE EVENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; WATERSHEDS;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

GANGES BASIN;

EID: 84896737153     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1056-9     Document Type: Article

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