Increasingly warm summers in the Euro–Mediterranean zone: mean temperatures and extremes

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1825-1832

  Simolo, Claudia ^a   Brunetti, Michele ^a   Maugeri, Maurizio ^a,b   Nanni, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate variability and change; Extreme events; Moments; Probability density functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907707333     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0373-7     Document Type: Article

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