Climate change estimates of summer temperature and precipitation in the Alpine region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Heimann, Dietrich ^a   Sept, Vladimir ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0033929728     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007040070029     Document Type: Article

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