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MEDALUS publications from CRU

Here is a list of recent and forthcoming publications from staff in the Climatic Research Unit arising from research carried out as part of the MEDALUS project.

Refereed papers

Goodess, C.M. and Palutikof, J.P., 1998:
Development of daily rainfall scenarios for southeast Spain using a circulation-type approach to downscaling.
Accepted for publication in International Journal of Climatology.

Palutikof, J.P., Winkler J.A., Goodess, C.M. and Andresen, J.A., 1997:
The simulation of daily temperature time series from GCM output.
Part I: Comparison of model data with observations.
Journal of Climate, 10, 2497-2513.

Winkler, J.A., Palutikof, J.P., Andresen, J.A. and Goodess, C.M., 1997:
The simulation of daily temperature time series from GCM output.
Part II: Sensitivity analysis of an empirical transfer function methodology.
Journal of Climate, 10, 2514-2532.

Palutikof, J.P., Goodess, C.M. and Guo, X., 1994:
Climate change, potential evapotranspiration and moisture availability in the Mediterranean Basin.
International Journal of Climatology, 14, 853-869.

Book chapters

Goodess, C.M., Mariani, L., Palutikof, J.P., Menichini, V. and Minardi, G.P. 1997:
Estimating future climates in the Mediterranean.
In ‘Atlas of Mediterranean Environments in Europe: the Desertification Context’
Editors P. Mairota, J.B. Thornes and N. Geeson
Wiley, London, 38-42.

Palutikof, J.P., Conte, M., Casimiro Mendes, J., Goodess, C.M. and Espirito Santo, F., 1996:
Climate and climatic change.
In ‘Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use’ Editors C. J. Brandt and J.B. Thornes Wiley, London, 43-86.

Palutikof, J.P. and Wigley, T.M.L., 1996:
Developing climate change scenarios for the Mediterranean region.
In ‘Climate Change and the Mediterranean Volume 2’
Editors L. Jeftic, J.C. Pernetta and S. Keckes
Edward Arnold, London, 27-56.

Conference abstracts, preprints and papers

Palutikof, J.P., C.M. Goodess and S.J. Watkins, 1998:
Multi-site multi-variable climate change scenarios.
Abstract for the Seventh International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Whistler, BC, 19-23 May 1998.

Watkins, S.J. and Palutikof, J.P., 1997:
Temperature estimation by an equilibrium-response climate model. Abstract and poster, Royal Meteorological Society and Institute of Physics Conference on ‘The Physics of Climate', London, 29-30 October 1997.

Goodess, C.M. and Palutikof, J.P., 1996:
Daily rainfall scenarios for Southeast Spain.
Abstract Book, 28th International Geographical Congress, The Hague, August 4-10, 1996, p. 157.

Palutikof, J.P. and Goodess, C.M., 1996:
Precipitation trends over the Mediterranean Basin.
Abstract Book, 28th International Geographical Congress, The Hague, August 4-10, 1996, p. 343.

Palutikof, J.P., Winkler, J.A., Goodess, C.M. and Andresen, J.A. 1995:
The simulation of daily time series from GCM output. Part 1: comparison of model data with observations.
In Preprints, Sixth Symposium on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, January 1995, 45-48.

Palutikof, J.P., Winkler, J.A., Andresen, J.A. and Goodess, C.M., 1995:
Downscaling daily temperature data from GCMs: an example from the Mediterranean basin.
In Preprints, Sixth International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Galway, 19- 23 June 1995, 203-206.

Winkler, J.A., Palutikof, J.P., Andresen, J.A. and Goodess, C.M. 1995:
The simulation of daily time series from GCM output. Part 2: Development of local scenarios for maximum and minimum temperature using statistical transfer functions.
In Preprints, Sixth Symposium on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, January 1995, 93-98.

Goodess, C.M. 1994:
Investigation of future changes in the occurrence of high-rainfall events in SE Spain.
Annales Geophysicae, 12(II), Part II, 366.

Palutikof, J.P., 1994:
Climate change scenarios for the Mediterranean.
In Pour qui la Méditerranée au 21ème Siècle? Proc. Scientific Colloquium, OKEANOS '93, Maison de l'Environnement, Montpelier, 202-206.

MEDALUS Working Papers

Goodess, C.M. and Palutikof, J.P. 1994:
Regional scenarios of climate change: changes in the precipitation regime of the Guadalentin Basin.
MEDALUS Working Paper Number 33, 10pp.

Palutikof, J.P., 1993:
Observed and modelled climatic data for the MEDALUS study areas available November 1993.
MEDALUS Working Paper No. 5, 13pp.

Others

Palutikof, J.P., 1994:
How researchers develop regional scenarios of climate change.
Fact Sheet 18, Causes of Climate Change, Information Unit on Climate Change, UNEP/WMO, Châtelaine, Switzerland.

Last revised 18 February 1998 by Jean Palutikof