Projections of future floods and hydrological droughts in Europe under a +2°C global warming

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 341-355

  Roudier, Philippe ^a   Andersson, Jafet C M ^b   Donnelly, Chantal ^b   Feyen, Luc ^c   Greuell, Wouter ^d   Ludwig, Fulco ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; DROUGHT DURATION; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD MAGNITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

BALKANS; EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84959134737     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1570-4     Document Type: Article

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