Assessment of CMIP5 climate models and projected temperature changes over Northern Eurasia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Miao, Chiyuan ^a   Duan, Qingyun ^a   Sun, Qiaohong ^a   Huang, Yong ^b   Kong, Dongxian ^a   Yang, Tiantian ^c   Ye, Aizhong ^a   Di, Zhenhua ^a   Gong, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP5; multi model ensembles; Northern Eurasia; temperature

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; TEMPERATURE;

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; CMIP5; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTHERN EURASIA; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EURASIA;

EID: 84928096366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/5/055007     Document Type: Article

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