Rapid warming in the tibetan plateau from observations and CMIP5 models in recent decades

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2660-2670

  You, Qinglong ^a   Min, Jinzhong ^a   Kang, Shichang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Climate warming; CMIP5; Hiatus; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SNOW;

CLIMATE WARMING; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIATUS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIATUS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84949428969     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4520     Document Type: Article

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