Statistical bias correction of global climate projections - Consequences for large scale modeling of flood flows

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-82

  Eisner, S ^a   Voss, F ^a   Kynast, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; FLOOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 84871000667     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-31-75-2012     Document Type: Article

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