Climate change effects on river flow to the Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 33, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 235-241

  Graham, L Phil ^a  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC REGION; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA;

EID: 3042644337     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-33.4.235     Document Type: Article

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41. This work was carried out within SWECLIM with joint funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and within the PRUDENCE Project with funds from the European Commission's Programme Environment and Climate (Contract No. EVK2-CT-2001-00132). The HadAM3H data used as boundary conditions for the RCAO simulations were provided by the Hadley Centre of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office; The ECHAM4/OPYC3 data were provided by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany and the Danish Climate Centre of the Danish Meteorological Institute.