Evaluation of a statistical downscaling procedure for the estimation of climate change impacts on droughts

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 879-894

  Vasiliades, L ^a   Loukas, A ^a   Patsonas, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

GREECE; KARLA LAKE; MAGNESIA; THESSALY;

EID: 77949536139     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-879-2009     Document Type: Article

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