On the search for vital details of climate change

9th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas: Urban Challenges in Rainfall Analysis, UrbanRain 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 250-258

  Fatichi, S ^a   Ivanov, V Y ^b   Caporali, E ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; Engineering design; Non stationarity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DOWN-SCALING; ENGINEERING DESIGN; NON-STATIONARITIES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84904855102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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