Projection of occurrence of extreme dry-wet years and seasons in Europe with stationary and nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Indices

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7628-7639

  Russo, S ^a,b   Dosio, A ^a   Sterl, A ^c   Barbosa, P ^a   Vogt, J ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; drought; extreme; precipitation index; statistical modeling; wetness

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; STREAM FLOW;

EXTREME; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION INDICES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; WETNESS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; STANDARDIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84882795943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50571     Document Type: Article

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