Human-induced changes in wind, temperature and relative humidity during Santa Ana events

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 119-132

  Hughes, Mimi ^a   Hall, Alex ^b   Kim, Jinwon ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; downslope winds; fire weather; regional climate

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSLOPE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE RISKS; FIRE WEATHER; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE; WARM AIR; WIND EVENTS; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FIRES; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; KATABATIC FLOW; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA ANA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANAS;

EID: 84855350750     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0300-9     Document Type: Article

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