Dry and wet periods in the northwestern Maghreb for present day and future climate conditions

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 533-551

  Born, Kai ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^a   Paeth, Heiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERCHANGES; RAIN;

ANALYSIS METHOD; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SHIFTS; DOWN-SCALING; DRY AND WET; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; MAGHREB; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; RETURN VALUE; RETURN-TIMES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEST AFRICA; WET AND DRY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; MAGHREB; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 63649139497     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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