Time of emergence of climate signals over China under the RCP4.5 scenario

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 265-276

  Sui, Yue ^a,c   Lang, Xianmei ^a,b   Jiang, Dabang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NORTHEASTERN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84957435507     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1151-y     Document Type: Article

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