Extended regional climate model projections for Europe until the mid-twentyfirst century: Combining ENSEMBLES and CMIP3

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 521-535

  Heinrich, Georg ^a   Gobiet, Andreas ^a   Mendlik, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

ENSEMBLES; Europe; Future climate projections; Regional climate models; Sampling bias; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SAMPLING BIAS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84890546533     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1840-7     Document Type: Article

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