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Evaluation of global climate models in simulating extreme precipitation in China

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Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19799 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 19799 - 19799
Submitted on: Sep 30, 2012
Accepted on: May 21, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
extreme precipitation,
scaling effect,
global climate model,
CMIP5,
China

© 2013 Tinghai Ou, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Linderholm, Jee-Hoon Jeong, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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