Is there a trend in extremely high river temperature for the next decades? A case study for France

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-79

  Huguet, F ^a   Parey, S ^a   Dacunha Castelle, D ^b   Malek, F ^b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER PLANT; RIVER; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; LOIRE RIVER; RHONE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39449123376     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-8-67-2008     Document Type: Article

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