Future snowfall in western and central Europe projected with a high-resolution regional climate model ensemble

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4294-4299

  De Vries, Hylke ^a   Lenderink, Geert ^a   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); SNOW;

BASIC FREQUENCIES; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTENSITY CHANGE; INTENSITY REDUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84907919476     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059724     Document Type: Article

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