Persisting cold extremes under 21st-century warming scenarios

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kodra, Evan ^a,b   Steinhaeuser, Karsten ^a,c   Ganguly, Auroop R ^a,d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS EMISSIONS;

ANNUAL MAXIMA; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; EXTREME EVENTS; FROST DAYS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; GRID-BASED; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-MODEL; REANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; FROST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 79955591935     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047103     Document Type: Article

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