Ensemble projections of regional climatic changes over Ontario, Canada

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7327-7346

  Wang, Xiuquan ^a   Huang, Guohe ^a,b   Liu, Jinliang ^c   Li, Zhong ^a   Zhao, Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate prediction; Ensembles; North America; Regional effects; Regional models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLES; NORTH AMERICA; REGIONAL EFFECTS; REGIONAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84980340083     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0185.1     Document Type: Article

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