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Climate Change in North America

Part of the book series: Regional Climate Studies ((REGCLIMATE))

Abstract

Previous chapters have concentrated on what observations tell us about the climate of North America and how it has changed with time. Proxy records provide the data for geological time scales, weather station measurements cover the last 150 years or so, and satellite observations are available for the last four decades. This is the first of two chapters on the evaluation and use of computer models to simulate recent climate change in North America and to estimate future climate resulting from emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and land use change. This chapter concentrates on global models; the following chapter focuses on regional models.

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Duffy, P.B., Maloney, E., Sheffield, J. (2014). Global Climate Model Simulations of North America. In: Ohring, G. (eds) Climate Change in North America. Regional Climate Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03768-4_4

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