Global land-based datasets for monitoring climatic extremes

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 997-1006

  Donat, M G ^a   Alexander, L V ^a   Yang, H ^a   Durre, I ^b   Vose, R ^b   Caesar, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE MONITORING; EXPERT TEAMS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84880876774     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00109.1     Document Type: Article

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