Five hundred years of gridded high-resolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-405

  Pauling, Andreas ^a   Luterbacher, Jürg ^a,b   Casty, Carlo ^a   Wanner, Heinz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b National Centre of Competence in Research Climate   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 32444434245     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0090-8     Document Type: Article

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