Future changes in European winter storm losses and extreme wind speeds inferred from GCM and RCM multi-model simulations

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1351-1370

  Donat, M G ^a,b   Leckebusch, G C ^a   Wild, S ^a   Ulbrich, U ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOWNSCALING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SAMPLING BIAS; STORM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 79956116433     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-1351-2011     Document Type: Article

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