Extreme hot summers in China in the CMIP5 climate models

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 669-681

  Leng, Guoyong ^a,b   Tang, Qiuhong ^a   Huang, Shengzhi ^c   Zhang, Xuejun ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SUMMER; THRESHOLD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84961167029     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1576-y     Document Type: Article

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