Multi-GCM projections of future drought and climate variability indicators for the Mediterranean region

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1907-1919

  Dubrovský, Martin ^a,e   Hayes, Michael ^b   Duce, Pierpaolo ^c   Trnka, Miroslav ^d,e   Svoboda, Mark ^b   Zara, Pierpaolo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Global Climate Models; Mediterranean; Palmer Drought Severity Index; Precipitation; Temperature; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907708767     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0562-z     Document Type: Article

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