Climate projections for southern Australian cool-season rainfall: Insights from a downscaling comparison

Climate Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 251-265

  Grose, Michael R ^a   Moise, Aurel F ^b   Timbal, Bertrand ^b   Katzfey, Jack J ^a   Ekström, Marie ^a   Whetton, Penny H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate projections; Downscaling; Precipitation; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84982151946     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01276     Document Type: Article

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