GCM simulations of a future climate: How does the skill of GCM precipitation simulations compare to temperature simulations?

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2618-2624

  Johnson, F M ^a   Sharma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation model (GCM); Model skill

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABLES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TEMPERATURE SIMULATIONS;

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EID: 85086261386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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