Downscaling of current and future rainfall climatologies for southern Morocco. Part II: Climate change signals

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1065-1073

  Huebener, H ^a,c   Kerschgens, M ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circulation weather types; Climate change; ECHAM4; ECHAM5; North Africa; Precipitation; Statistical dynamical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MOISTURE; RAIN; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CIRCULATION WEATHER TYPES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 34347205578     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1457     Document Type: Article

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