Projected changes in extreme temperature events based on the NARCCAP model suite

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7722-7731

  Horton, Radley M ^a,b   Coffel, Ethan D ^b,c   Winter, Jonathan M ^d   Bader, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change and variability; climate dynamics; impacts of global change; regional modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; EXTREME TEMPERATURE EVENTS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; GLOBAL CHANGE; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL MODEL; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945484125     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064914     Document Type: Article

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