Extremes of near-surface wind speed over Europe and their future changes as estimated from an ensemble of RCM simulations

Climatic Change

Volumn 81, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 267-280

  Rockel, Burkhardt ^a   Woth, Katja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION;

INTER-MONTHLY VARIATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; WIND SPEED;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLONE; DATA SET; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; GUST; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34248219851     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9227-y     Document Type: Article

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