Future weather types and their influence on mean and extreme climate indices for precipitation and temperature in Central Europe

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 231-252

  Riediger, Ulf ^a   Gratzki, Annegret ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global climate model; Regional climate model; Weather types

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; WESTERLY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84925442198     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2014/0519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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