Simulation of the hydrological cycle over Europe: Model validation and impacts of increasing greenhouse gases

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-119

  Arpe, Klaus ^a   Roeckner, Erich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ECHAM; Europe; Impacts from anthropogenic greenhouse gases; Precipitation; River discharge; Scenario simulation

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

RIVERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033402246     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(99)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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