Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation over the Mediterranean region from a high resolution double nested RCM simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gao, Xuejie ^a,b   Pal, Jeremy S ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^a  

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

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPINE REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; SIMULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645838405     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024954     Document Type: Article

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