Analysis of high-resolution simulations for the Black Forest region from a point of view of tourism climatology - a comparison between two regional climate models (REMO and CLM)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 427-440

  Endler, Christina ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOURISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

EID: 79951810686     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0311-x     Document Type: Article

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