Indian summer monsoon rainfall processes in climate change scenarios

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5414-5429

  Asharaf, Shakeel ^a   Ahrens, Bodo ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; EFFICIENCY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY; PRECIPITATION PROCESS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

INDIA;

EID: 84942024191     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00233.1     Document Type: Article

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