Deciphering the desiccation trend of the South Asian monsoon hydroclimate in a warming world

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 1007-1027

  Krishnan, R ^a   Sabin, T P ^a   Vellore, R ^a   Mujumdar, M ^a   Sanjay, J ^a   Goswami, B N ^a,b   Hourdin, F ^c   Dufresne, J L ^c   Terray, P ^d,e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology   (India)

Author keywords

High resolution model simulations; Recent trends in the South Asian Monsoon; Regional hydroclimatic response to climate change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84945582359     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2886-5     Document Type: Article

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