Perceptible changes in regional precipitation in a future climate
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Perceptible changes in regional precipitation in a future climate
[1] Evidence is strong that the changes observed in the Earth’s globally averaged temperature over the past halfcentury are caused to a large degree by human activities. Efforts to document accompanying precipitation changes in observations have met with limited success, and have been primarily focussed on large-scale regions in order to reduce the relative impact of the natural variability of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2011gl050738