Trends in joint quantiles of temperature and precipitation in Europe since 1901 and projected for 2100

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Beniston, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; MEAN PRECIPITATION; PARTICULAR CONDITION; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67449127898     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037119     Document Type: Article

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