Erratum to: Future projections of the surface heat and water budgets of the Mediterranean Sea in an ensemble of coupled atmosphere-ocean regional climate models (Clim Dyn, 10.1007/s00382-011-1261-4);Future projections of the surface heat and water budgets of the Mediterranean Sea in an ensemble of coupled atmosphere-ocean regional climate models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1859-1884

  Dubois, C ^a   Somot, S ^a   Calmanti, S ^c   Carillo, A ^c   Deque M ^a   Dell'Aquilla, A ^c   Elizalde, A ^d   Gualdi, S ^e   Jacob, D ^d   L'Heveder B ^b   Li, L ^b   Oddo, P ^e   Sannino, G ^c   Scoccimarro, E ^e   Sevault, F ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat and water budget; Mediterranean Sea

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT BUDGET; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WATER BUDGET;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84867101936     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1307-2     Document Type: Erratum

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