Climate change scenarios for precipitation extremes in Portugal

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 217-234

  Costa, Ana C ^a   Santos, João A ^b   Pinto, Joaquim G ^c  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEASON; SPATIAL VARIATION;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84859100185     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0528-3     Document Type: Article

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