Intensification of seasonal extremes given a 2°C global warming target

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 325-337

  Anderson, Bruce T ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; EXTREME VALUE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; SPATIAL SCALE; STANDARD TOOLS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TROPICAL REGIONS;

GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EMISSION CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84859218799     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0213-7     Document Type: Article

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