Evaluation of historical and future cool season precipitation over the eastern United States and western Atlantic storm track using CMIP5 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 451-467

  Lombardo, Kelly ^a   Colle, Brian A ^b   Zhang, Zhenhai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; COOL SEASON PRECIPITATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORM TRACK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921696235     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00343.1     Document Type: Article

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