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Exploiting an ensemble of regional climate models to provide robust estimates of projected changes in monthly temperature and precipitation probability distribution functions Cover

Exploiting an ensemble of regional climate models to provide robust estimates of projected changes in monthly temperature and precipitation probability distribution functions

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Volume 61 (2009): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00374.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 57 - 71
Submitted on: Mar 28, 2008
Accepted on: Jul 24, 2008
Published on: Jan 1, 2009
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2009 Francisco J. Tapiador, Enrique Sánchez, Raquel Romera, published by Stockholm University Press
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