Projected 21st century snowfall changes over the French Alps and related uncertainties

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 583-594

  Piazza, Marie ^a   Boé, Julien ^a   Terray, Laurent ^a   Pagé, Christian ^a   Sanchez Gomez, Emilia ^a   Déqué, Michel ^b  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UNCERTAINTY SOURCES;

SNOW;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GAS; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 84898048672     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1017-8     Document Type: Article

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