Extreme precipitation over the Maritime Alps and associated weather regimes simulated by a regional climate model: Present-day and future climate scenarios

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 81-99

  Boroneant, C ^a   Plaut, G ^b   Giorgi, F ^c   Bi, X ^c  

^a NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MARITIME ALPS; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748186177     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0211-7     Document Type: Article

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