The NARCliM project: Model agreement and significance of climate projections

Climate Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 209-227

  Olson, Roman ^a,b   Evans, Jason P ^a   Di Luca, Alejandro ^a   Argüeso, Daniel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; NARCliM; Regional climate modelling; Southeast Australia

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROJECT DESIGN; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84984698645     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01403     Document Type: Article

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