A statistical adjustment of regional climate model outputs to local scales: Application to Platja de Palma, Spain

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 939-957

  Amengual, A ^a,b   Homar, V ^a   Romero, R ^a   Alonso, S ^a,b   Ramis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatology; Europe; Mediterranean Sea; Societal impacts

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLOUD COVER; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DAILY RAINFALL; EUROPE; EXTREME RAINFALL; LOCAL ADAPTATION; LOCAL SCALE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TIME SLICE; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 84856971561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05024.1     Document Type: Article

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