Extreme climate events and agricultural climate indices in China: CMIP5 model evaluation and projections

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-61

  Sun, Qiaohong ^a,b   Miao, Chiyuan ^a,b   Duan, Qingyun ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural climate index; China; CMIP5; Extreme climate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ACCUMULATED TEMPERATURES; CHINA; CLIMATE INDEX; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; EXTREME CLIMATES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84958035851     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4328     Document Type: Article

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