California heat waves in the present and future

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Gershunov, Alexander ^a   Guirguis, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CALIFORNIA; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; COASTAL POPULATION; DAILY TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HEAT WAVES; NON-STATIONARITIES; SUB-REGIONS; TYPE II;

ENERGY RESOURCES;

ACCLIMATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DESERT; DOWNSCALING; ENERGY RESOURCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WAVE ACTION; WAVE MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867219756     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052979     Document Type: Article

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