Projected evolution of circulation types and their temperatures over Central Europe in climate models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 625-634

  Plavcová, Eva ^a,b   Kyselý, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84887321023     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0874-4     Document Type: Article

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