Uncertainties in climate change scenarios for the Czech Republic

Climate Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-156

  Dubrovsky, Martin ^a   Nemesova, Ivana ^a   Kalvova, Jaroslava ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate change scenarios; Global climate models; Pattern scaling; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 24944452177     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr029139     Document Type: Article

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