List of Figures
Fig. 1.1
Location of the investigation areas within Central
and Eastern Europe . . . . . . .............................................. 9
Fig. 2.1
Left: Slice of a stalagmite from a cave in Austria; Right:
Horizontal cross section of a tree (Larix decidua) in Savoyen
grown in 1746, cut in 1999 ............................................ 19
Fig. 2.2
Growing season length (GSL) and number of frost days (FD)
in Laa an der Thaya, near the National park Thayatal
in Austria for the time period 1952–2009. ........................... 22
Fig. 2.3
Change of simulated mean temperature in Central and Eastern
Europe in winter and summer as the multi-model mean
2036–2065 relative to 1971–2000 for the A1B greenhouse
gas emission scenario .................................................. 25
Fig. 2.4
Change of simulated mean precipitation in Central and Eastern
Europe in winter and summer as the multi-model mean
2036–2065 relative to 1971–2000 for the A1B greenhouse
gas emission scenario .................................................. 27
Fig. 3.1
Hydrological components on catchment scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Fig. 3.2
Change of Climatic Water Balance in Central and Eastern
Europe for winter (December–February) and summer
(June–August) as the multi-model mean 2036–2065 relative
to 1971–2000 [absolute differences in mm/3 months], for the
A1B greenhouse gas emission scenario with 14 different
GCM-RCM-combinations from the ENSEMBLES project . . . . . . . . 35
Fig. 3.3
Monthly Parde ´-coefficients (PC ¼ Q mean monthly/Q mean
annual) simulated by the eco-hydrological model SWIM driven
by regional climate simulation from REMO for the A1B
greenhouse gas emission scenario for gauge Achleiten at Danube
river and gauge Dresden at Elbe river for three different time
slices (long-term annual mean values for 1961–1990,
2041–2070 and 2071–2100) . .......................................... 37
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