Changes in the European precipitation climatologies as derived by an ensemble of regional models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2540-2557

  Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Sánchez, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METEOROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH;

ANNUAL CYCLES; ATLANTIC; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC RESEARCH; COASTAL AREAS; EUROPEAN; FUTURE CLIMATE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODELING; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; VALIDATION DATA;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 48749131683     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1867.1     Document Type: Article

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