Global high resolution versus Limited Area Model climate change projections over Europe: Quantifying confidence level from PRUDENCE results

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 653-670

  Déqué, Michel ^a   Jones, R G ^b   Wild, M ^c   Giorgi, F ^d   Christensen, J H ^e   Hassell, D C ^b   Vidale, P L ^c   Rockel, B ^f   Jacob, D ^g   Kjellstrom E ^h   de Castro, M ⁱ   Kucharski, F ^d   van den Hurk, B ^j  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^h SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^j ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 27744604644     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0052-1     Document Type: Article

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