Analysis of uncertainty in large scale climate change projections over Europe

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-395

  Prein, Andreas Franz ^a   Gobiet, Andreas ^a   Truhetz, Heimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI-MODEL; NEAR-SURFACE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TWO DOMAINS; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS; UNDER-SAMPLING; UPPER AIR;

CLIMATE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOPOTENTIAL; HUMIDITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053463752     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0286     Document Type: Article

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