Design of a regional climate modelling projection ensemble experiment - NARCliM

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 621-629

  Evans, J P ^a   Ji, F ^b   Lee, C ^b   Smith, P ^c   Argueso D ^a   Fita, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAKEHOLDER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84898852188     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-621-2014     Document Type: Article

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