Evaluation of modern and mid-Holocene seasonal precipitation of the Mediterranean and northern Africa in the CMIP5 simulations

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 551-568

  Perez Sanz, A ^a,b   Li, G ^b   Gonzalez Samperiz P ^a   Harrison, S P ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWING SEASON; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84896983964     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-551-2014     Document Type: Article

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