Regional climate model estimates for changes in nordic extreme events

Geophysica

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 25-48

  Makkonen, Lasse ^a   Ruokolainen, Leena ^b   Räisänen, Jouni ^b   Tikanmäki, Maria ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation to climate change; Climate change; Extreme weather; Probabilistic design; Regional climate modeling; Risk management of structures

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DESIGN FLOOD; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RETURN PERIOD; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57749168365     PISSN: 03674231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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