Multidecadal oscillatory behaviour of rainfall extremes in Europe

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 931-944

  Willems, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EVOLUTION OF PRECIPITATION; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BELGIUM; BRUSSELS [BELGIUM]; UCCLE;

EID: 84884701030     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0837-x     Document Type: Article

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