Present and future climatologies in the phase I CREMA experiment

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-38

  Coppola, Erika ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Raffaele, Francesca ^a   Fuentes Franco, Ramon ^b   Giuliani, Graziano ^a   LLopart Pereira, Marta ^c   Mamgain, Ashu ^d   Mariotti, Laura ^a   Diro, Gulilat Tefera ^a   Torma, Csaba ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG); LAND SURFACE SCHEME; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84911195360     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1137-9     Document Type: Article

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