Climate change impacts on extreme precipitation in Morocco

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 82-83, Issue , 2012, Pages 104-114

  Tramblay, Yves ^a   Badi, Wafae ^b   Driouech, Fatima ^b   El Adlouni, Salaheddine ^c,d   Neppel, Luc ^a   Servat, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Direction de la Météorologie Nationale   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^d INSEA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme events; GEV; Non stationary models; RCM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CONTROL PERIODS; EUROPEAN PROJECT; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME QUANTILES; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; GEV; MODEL CONVERGENCE; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NON-STATIONARY MODEL; NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PROJECTION PERIOD; RCM; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RETURN PERIODS; SCALING FACTORS; SEASONAL CYCLE; WEIGHTING SCHEME; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MOROCCO;

EID: 84855805102     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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