Statistical uncertainty of changes in winter storms over the North Atlantic and Europe in an ensemble of transient climate simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Della Marta, Paul M ^a   Pinto, Joaquim G ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIMULATION; DAMAGING WIND; FUTURE CLIMATE; NATURAL HAZARD; NORTH ATLANTIC; RETURN PERIODS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; WINTER STORMS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

STORMS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70349603554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038557     Document Type: Article

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