When can we expect extremely high surface temperatures?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Sterl, Andreas ^a   Severijns, Camiel ^a   Dijkstra, Henk ^b   Hazeleger, Wilco ^a   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   van den Broeke, Michiel ^b   Burgers, Gerrit ^a   van den Hurk, Bart ^a,b   van Leeuwen, Peter Jan ^b   van Velthoven, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; AVERAGE TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE MODELLING; CLIMATE VARIABLES; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; EXTREME VALUES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; LAND AREAS; LARGE SIZES; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; RE-ANALYSIS; SCALE PARAMETERS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATION DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VALUES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 53749087274     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034071     Document Type: Article

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