Climate projections for ecologists

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 621-637

  Harris, Rebecca Mary B ^a   Grose, Michael R ^b   Lee, Greg ^a   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^a,b,c,d,e   Porfirio, Luciana L ^f   Fox Hughes, Paul ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; DOWNSCALING METHODS; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE;

EID: 84906224968     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.291     Document Type: Review

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