Assessment of forced responses of the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) 1.3 in CMIP5 historical detection and attribution experiments

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 87-101

  Lewis, Sophie C ^a   Karoly, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WARMING;

EID: 84922254880     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6402.001     Document Type: Article

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