Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1237-1257

  Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Silva, Nicolas Da ^a   Panthou, Gérémy ^a   Bastin, Sophie ^b   Muller, Caroline ^a   Ahrens, Bodo ^c   Borga, Marco ^d   Conte, Dario ^e   Fosser, Giorgia ^f   Giorgi, Filippo ^g   Güttler, Ivan ^h   Kotroni, Vassiliki ⁱ   Li, Laurent ^j   Morin, Efrat ^k   Önol, Bariş ^l   Quintana Segui, Pere ^m   Romera, Raquel ⁿ   Torma, Csaba Zsolt ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

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

^h METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

ⁱ NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^j LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^k HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^l ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^m UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Clausius Clapeyron scaling; Europe; HyMeX; MED CORDEX; Mediterranean; Precipitation extremes; Regional climate

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84961665219     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3083-x     Document Type: Article

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