Projected increases in near-surface air temperature over Ontario, Canada: a regional climate modeling approach

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1381-1393

  Wang, Xiuquan ^a   Huang, Guohe ^a,b   Liu, Jinliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Ontario; Regional climate modeling; Temperature increase

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84940659548     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2387-y     Document Type: Article

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