Climate extremes in the NE Mediterranean: Assessing the E-OBS dataset and regional climate simulations

Climate Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-270

  Kostopoulou, Effie ^a,b   Giannakopoulos, Christos ^a   Hatzaki, Maria ^a   Tziotziou, Kostas ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; E OBS; ENSEMBLES; ENSEMBLES daily gridded observational dataset; Indices; NE Mediterranean; RCMs; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EXTREMES; DATA SETS; E-OBS; ENSEMBLES; INDICES; RCMS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84867856913     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01110     Document Type: Article

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