Different patterns of climate change scenarios for short-term and multi-day precipitation extremes in the Mediterranean

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 98-99, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-72

  Kyselý, Jan ^a,b   Beguería, Santiago ^c   Beranová, Romana ^a,b   Gaál, Ladislav ^a,d   López Moreno, Juan Ignacio ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^e INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme value analysis; Mediterranean; Precipitation extremes; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; FLASH FLOOD; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MEDITERRANEAN; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLASH FLOOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIMESCALE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84865808614     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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