An analysis of global model projections over Italy, with particular attention to the Italian Greater Alpine Region (GAR)

Climatic Change

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-258

  Faggian, Paola ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^b  

^a CESI RICERCA   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ANNUAL MEAN; AVERAGING METHOD; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EMISSION SCENARIO; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL MODELS; ITALIAN REGIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TIME PERIODS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WINTER SEASONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MODEL TEST; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ITALY;

EID: 76149105144     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9584-4     Document Type: Article

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