An estimate of future climate change for western France using a statistical downscaling technique

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 807-823

  Timbal, B ^a   Dufour, A ^b   McAvaney, B ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING;

(WEST); FRANCE;

EID: 0037591733     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-002-0298-9     Document Type: Article

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