Using maps of city analogues to display and interpret climate change scenarios and their uncertainty

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 905-918

  Kopf, S ^a   Ha Duong, M ^b,c   Hallegatte, S ^b,d  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; MAP; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 50849105750     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-8-905-2008     Document Type: Article

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