European temperature distribution changes in observations and climate change scenarios

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a   Liniger, Mark A ^a   Schär, Christoph ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY CHANGES; SEASONAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION CHANGES;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY CHANGES; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; SEASONAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION CHANGES;

EID: 28144433995     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024108     Document Type: Article

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