Changes in extremes and hydroclimatic regimes in the CREMA ensemble projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-51

  Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Coppola, Erika ^a   Raffaele, Francesca ^a   Diro, Gulilat Tefera ^a   Fuentes Franco, Ramon ^b   Giuliani, Graziano ^a   Mamgain, Ashu ^c   Llopart, Marta Pereira ^d   Mariotti, Laura ^a   Torma, Csaba ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; REGIONAL MODEL;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION;

EID: 84957728162     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1117-0     Document Type: Article

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