Pattern scaling: Its strengths and limitations, and an update on the latest model simulations

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 459-471

  Tebaldi, Claudia ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; MODEL SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84899906731     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1032-9     Document Type: Review

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