Summer dryness in a warmer climate: A process study with a regional climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-85

  Seneviratne, S I ^a   Pal, J S ^b   Eltahir, E A B ^b   Schar C ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SUMMER;

EID: 0036867357     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-002-0258-4     Document Type: Article

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