Local-scale climate scenarios for impact studies and risk assessments: Integration of early 21st century ENSEMBLES projections into the ELPIS database

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 445-455

  Calanca, Pierluigi ^a   Semenov, Mikhail A ^b  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

JAPAN;

EID: 84880798626     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0799-3     Document Type: Article

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