How the aggressiveness of rainfalls in the Mediterranean lands is enhanced by climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 591-599

  Diodato, Nazzareno ^a   Bellocchi, Gianni ^a,b   Romano, Nunzio ^c   Chirico, Giovanni Battista ^c  

^a World Climate Research Programme   (Italy)

^b French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; DISTURBING FORCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; LAND DEGRADATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; NUTRIENT LOSS; OVERLAND FLOW; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES; SOIL EROSION; TIMES SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CATCHMENTS; EARTH (PLANET); EROSION; RAIN; THUNDERSTORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIODEGRADATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; EARTH; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HILLSLOPE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LATITUDE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NUTRIENT LOSS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOIL EROSION; STORM; TIME SERIES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 80052928600     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0216-4     Document Type: Article

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