Dynamically-downscaled probabilistic projections of precipitation changes: A Canadian case study

Environmental Research

Volumn 148, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-101

  Wang, Xiuquan ^a   Huang, Guohe ^a   Baetz, Brian W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Changes in precipitation; Climate change; Global warming; Ontario; Regional climate modeling

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SNOW;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WEATHER; WINTER; CLIMATE; FORECASTING; ONTARIO; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONTARIO; RAIN; SEASONS; SNOW;

EID: 84961689578     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.03.019     Document Type: Article

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