A regional climate simulation over the Iberian Peninsula for the last millennium

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 451-472

  Gomez Navarro J J ^a   Montavez J P ^a   Jerez, S ^a   Jimnez Guerrero P ^a   Lorente Plazas, R ^a   Gonzlez Rouco J F ^b   Zorita, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79955588074     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-451-2011     Document Type: Article

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