Regional climate change scenarios for Greece: Future temperature and precipitation projections from ensembles of RCMs

Global Nest Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 407-421

  Tolika, C K ^a   Zanis, P ^a   Anagnostopoulou, C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Emission scenarios; Greece; Precipitation and temperature future changes; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877246048     PISSN: 17907632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30955/gnj.000776     Document Type: Article

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