Robust projections of Fire Weather Index in the Mediterranean using statistical downscaling

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 229-247

  Bedia, J ^a   Herrera, S ^a,b   Martín, D San ^b   Koutsias, N ^c   Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONALIZATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

CLIMATE MODELS; FIRES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDEX METHOD; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WILDFIRE;

GREECE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84881613186     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0787-3     Document Type: Article

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