Climate-change effects on extreme precipitation in central Europe: Uncertainties of scenarios based on regional climate models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 361-374

  Kyselý, Jan ^a   Beranová, Romana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; INFILTRATION; OROGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 62249123242     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0014-8     Document Type: Article

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