Changes of the annual precipitation over central Asia in the twenty-first century projected by multimodels of CMIP5

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6627-6646

  Huang, Anning ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a   Huang, Danqing ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b   Wu, Haomin ^a,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c Lishui Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAUX; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE EVAPORATION; WATER VAPOR TRANSPORT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84906879067     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00070.1     Document Type: Article

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