The 2003 heat wave in Europe: A shape of things to come? An analysis based on Swiss climatological data and model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Beniston, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GAS CONCENTRATION; MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; STATISTICAL FEATURES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

GEOPHYSICS; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 18144442446     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018857     Document Type: Article

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