Detection of changes in temperature extremes during the second half of the 20th century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Christidis, Nikolaos ^a   Stott, Peter A ^a   Brown, Simon ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^b   Caesar, John ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH RISKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; WARM NIGHTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EXTREME EVENT; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 28944443125     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023885     Document Type: Article

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