The global precipitation response to volcanic eruptions in the CMIP5 models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Iles, Carley E ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate models; climate variability; CMIP5; hydrological cycle; precipitation; short wave geoengineering; volcanoclimate interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COUPLING; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL REGION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 84923560349     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104012     Document Type: Article

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