Near-future climate change over Europe with focus on Croatia in an ensemble of regional climate model simulations

Climate Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-251

  Branković, Čedo ^a   Patarčić, Mirta ^a   Güttler, Ivan ^a   Srnec, Lidija ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Ensemble integrations; Europe; RegCM; Regional climate change; Systematic errors

Indexed keywords

CROATIA; ENSEMBLE INTEGRATION; EUROPE; REGCM; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CROATIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84860887957     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01058     Document Type: Article

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