Climate change scenarios for precipitation and potential evapotranspiration over central Belgium

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 273-286

  Baguis, P ^a   Roulin, E ^a   Willems, P ^b   Ntegeka, V ^b  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY;

BELGIUM;

EID: 73149096454     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0146-5     Document Type: Article

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