Runoff sensitivity to global mean temperature change in the CMIP5 Models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5492-5498

  Zhang, Xuejun ^a,b   Tang, Qiuhong ^a   Zhang, Xuezhen ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; CMIP5; global mean temperature; runoff sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EMISSION SCENARIO; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; LAND AREAS; RUNOFF CHANGES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOW MODELING; RUNOFF;

EID: 84905601790     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060382     Document Type: Article

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