The European climate under a 2 °c global warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Vautard, Robert ^a   Gobiet, Andreas ^b   Sobolowski, Stefan ^c   Kjellström, Erik ^d   Stegehuis, Annemiek ^a   Watkiss, Paul ^e   Mendlik, Thomas ^b   Landgren, Oskar ^f   Nikulin, Grigory ^d   Teichmann, Claas ^g,h   Jacob, Daniela ^g  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Paul Watkiss Associates   (United Kingdom)

^f NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^g INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

European climate; extreme events; regional climate change

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; EUROPEAN CLIMATE; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENERGY BUDGET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND PROFILE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84897543499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034006     Document Type: Article

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