European drought regimes under mitigated and unmitigated climate change: Application of the Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS)

Climate Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-123

  Warren, R ^a   Yu, R M S ^a   Osborn, T J ^a   De La Nava Santos, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate mitigation; Climate variability; Drought; Integrated assessment modeling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHANGE PATTERNS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE MITIGATION; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; MITIGATION POLICIES; RAINFALL EVENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHT; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WETTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84857711214     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01042     Document Type: Article

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