Climate change scenarios for temperature and precipitation in Aragón (Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 1015-1030

  Ribalaygua, Jaime ^a   Pino, Rosa M ^b   Pórtoles, Javier ^a   Roldán, Esther ^b   Gaitán, Emma ^a   Chinarro, David ^b   Torres, Luis ^a  

^a Fundación Para la Investigación del Clima FIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN JORGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change scenarios; Precipitation; Spain; Statistical downscaling; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; SPAIN; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EMISSION INVENTORY; FUTURE PROSPECT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARAGON; SPAIN;

EID: 84880660713     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.089     Document Type: Article

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