Downscaled simulations of the ECHAM5, CCSM3 and HadCM3 global models for the eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea region: Evaluation of the reference period

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 207-225

  Bozkurt, Deniz ^a   Turuncoglu, Ufuk ^a   Sen, Omer Lutfi ^a   Onol, Baris ^a   Dalfes, H Nuzhet ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Balkans; Carpathians; Caucasus; Fertile Crescent; Simulated regional climate; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BALKAN; BLACK SEA; CARPATHIANS; CAUCASUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 84862981906     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1187-x     Document Type: Article

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