Projections of climate change in the Mediterranean Basin by using downscaled global climate model outputs

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4276-4292

  Ozturk, Tugba ^a,b   Ceber, Zeynep Pelin ^a   Türkeş, Murat ^c   Kurnaz, M Levent ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Climate change and variability; Climate model simulation; Emission scenarios; Mediterranean Basin; Precipitation; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER RESOURCES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; EMISSION SCENARIO; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; TURKEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EMISSION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 84957968253     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4285     Document Type: Article

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