Comparison of past and future Mediterranean high and low extremes of precipitation and river flow projected using different statistical downscaling methods

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1411-1432

  Quintana Segui P ^a,b   Habets, F ^c   Martin, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; FLASH FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAPPING METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

FRANCE; RHONE BASIN;

EID: 79956135179     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-1411-2011     Document Type: Article

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