Possible impacts of climate change on extreme weather events at local scale in south-central Canada

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 963-979

  Cheng, Chad Shouquan ^a   Auld, Heather ^a   Li, Qian ^a   Li, Guilong ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DECISION MAKERS; DOWN-SCALING; ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FORMAL MODEL; FREEZING RAIN; HEAVY RAINFALL; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; HUMAN HEALTH; LOCAL SCALE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL VARIABLES; MODELING METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; RISK REDUCTION MEASURES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH RISKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

CANADA;

EID: 84860919257     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0252-0     Document Type: Article

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