A summary of the PRUDENCE model projections of changes in European climate by the end of this century

Climatic Change

Volumn 81, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 7-30

  Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg ^a   Christensen, Ole Bøssing ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE SIGNALS; CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34248168039     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9210-7     Document Type: Review

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