Non-linear regional relationships between climate extremes and annual mean temperatures in model projections for 1961-2099 over Europe

Climate Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-34

  Good, Peter ^a,d   Bärring, Lars ^b   Giannakopoulos, Christos ^a   Holt, T ^c   Palutikof, Jean ^d  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; Heatwave; Impacts; Pattern scaling; Precipitation; Warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33746418370     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr031019     Document Type: Article

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