Projected Changes of Palmer Drought Severity Index under an RCP8.5 Scenario

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 273-278

  Tian Jun, Zhou ^a,b   Tao, Hong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

climate model; palmer drought severity index; projection; RCP8.5 scenario

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84906769171     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2013.11447093     Document Type: Article

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