Mesoscale precipitation variability in the region of the European Alps during the 20th century

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1049-1074

  Schmidli, Jürg ^a   Schmutz, Christoph ^b   Frei, Christoph ^a   Wanner, Heinz ^b   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EOF; European Alps; Mesoscale; Optimal interpolation; Precipitation; Reconstruction; Trend; Variability

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; RAIN;

PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL PATTERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0036646957     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.769     Document Type: Article

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