The impact of the El Nio-Southern Oscillation on maximum temperature extremes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b   Alexander, Lisa V ^c  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

AUSTRALIA; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DATA SETS; FUTURE CLIMATE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM VALUES; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA;

NIA;

EID: 84867492820     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053409     Document Type: Article

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