Attributing northern high-latitude precipitation change over the period 1966–2005 to human influence

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1713-1726

  Wan, Hui ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Zwiers, Francis ^b   Min, Seung Ki ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate change; Detection and attribution; High latitude precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84943813960     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2423-y     Document Type: Article

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