Climate change hotspots over South America: From CMIP3 to CMIP5 multi-model datasets

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 579-587

  Torres, Roger Rodrigues ^a,b   Marengo, Jose Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84904555854     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1030-x     Document Type: Article

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