Climate Change Scenarios of Precipitation Extremes in the Carpathian Region Based on an Ensemble of Regional Climate Models

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gaál, Ladislav ^a,b   Beranová, Romana ^a   Hlavčová, Kamila ^b   Kyselý, Jan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 84934958319     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/943487     Document Type: Article

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