Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

Climatic Change

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 667-687

  Lelieveld, J ^a,b,c   Hadjinicolaou, P ^a   Kostopoulou, E ^a,f   Chenoweth, J ^d   El Maayar, M ^a   Giannakopoulos, C ^e   Hannides, C ^a   Lange, M A ^a   Tanarhte, M ^a,b   Tyrlis, E ^a   Xoplaki, E ^a,g,h  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^g JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARABIAN GULF; CLIMATE CONDITION; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FRESH WATER; HEAT STRESS; HOT WEATHER; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS; MIDDLE EAST; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL IMPACTS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SRES SCENARIO; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FRESHWATER; HEATING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBAN AREA; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARABIAN SEA; BALKANS; INDIAN OCEAN; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF; TURKEY;

EID: 84865815618     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0418-4     Document Type: Article

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