The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6972, 2004, Pages 332-336

  Schär, Christoph ^a   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^a   Lüthi, Daniel ^a   Frei, Christoph ^a   Häberli, Christian ^b   Liniger, Mark A ^b   Appenzeller, Christof ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEATWAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SUMMER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEATWAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 1542280010     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02300     Document Type: Article

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