Assessment of the changes in extreme vulnerability over East Asia due to global warming

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-321

  Lee, Min Hee ^a   Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Kim, Jinwon ^b   Song, Chang Keun ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE REGIME; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMBINED INDICES; DAILY TEMPERATURES; EAST ASIA; EXTREME EVENTS; FOUR-GROUP; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODEL DATA; MODEL SIMULATION; PUBLIC CONCERN; REGIONAL VARIATION; WEATHER EXTREMES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA; JAPAN; KOREA;

EID: 84862136002     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0345-9     Document Type: Article

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