Seasonal and regional biases in CMIP5 precipitation simulations

Climate Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-50

  Liu, Zhu ^a   Mehran, Ali ^a   Phillips, Thomas J ^b   AghaKouchak, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; CMIP5; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE; CMIP5; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; SUMMER; WINTER;

AMAZONIA; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; SIBERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900989838     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01221     Document Type: Article

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