A comprehensive evaluation of precipitation simulations over China based on CMIP5 multimodel ensemble projections

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5767-5786

  Chen, Liang ^a   Frauenfeld, Oliver W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CHINA; CMIP5; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84902786645     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021190     Document Type: Article

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