Changes in frost, snow and Baltic sea ice by the end of the twenty-first century based on climate model projections for Europe

Climatic Change

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 441-462

  Jylhä, Kirsti ^a   Fronzek, Stefan ^b   Tuomenvirta, Heikki ^a   Carter, Timothy R ^b   Ruosteenoja, Kimmo ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FROST EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS (RCM);

SNOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FROST; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICE COVER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SNOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 37549047996     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9310-z     Document Type: Article

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