Novel methods for inferring future changes in extreme rainfall over Northern Europe

Climate Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-210

  Benestad, Rasmus E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate scenarios; Empirical statistical downscaling; Extremes; PDF; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44349123540     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00693     Document Type: Article

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