Climate change scenarios for northern Europe from multi-model IPCC AR4 climate simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Benestad, Rasmus E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE MODELS; EMPIRICAL-STATISTICAL DOWNSEALING ANALYSIS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION RATES; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 27544471904     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023401     Document Type: Article

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