Weather regimes-Moroccan precipitation link in a regional climate change simulation

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Driouech, Fatima ^a   Déqué, Michel ^b   Sánchez Gómez, Emilia ^c  

^a Face Prefecture Hay Hassani Ain Chock ^*  (Morocco)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme events; Morocco; Precipitation; Regional climate modelling; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENTS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MOROCCO; NORTH ATLANTIC; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SRES SCENARIO; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; WEATHER REGIMES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MOROCCO;

EID: 84855323898     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.03.004     Document Type: Review

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