Striking stationarity of large-scale climate model bias patterns under strong climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 38, 2018, Pages 9462-9466

  Krinner, Gerhard ^a,c,d   Flanner, Mark G ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate modeling; Model biases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85053497625     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1807912115     Document Type: Article

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