Current and future impacts of extreme events in California

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 43-70

  Mastrandrea, Michael D ^a   Tebaldi, Claudia ^b   Snyder, Carolyn W ^a   Schneider, Stephen H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DOWNSCALING METHODS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEAT WAVES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855350143     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0311-6     Document Type: Article

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