Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12398-12403

  Mueller, Brigitte ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hot day prediction; Soil moisture temperature coupling; Standardized precipitation index; Temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE, EASTERN; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SNOW; SOUTH AMERICA; TEXAS;

EID: 84864509672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204330109     Document Type: Article

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