Daily precipitation intensity projected for the 21st century: Seasonal changes over the Pyrenees

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 375-384

  Lopez Moreno J I ^a,b   Beniston, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 62249207348     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0015-7     Document Type: Article

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