The importance of mean and variance in predicting changes in temperature extremes

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8285-8296

  Parey, Sylvie ^a   Hoang, Thi Thu Huong ^a   Dacunha Castelle, Didier ^b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

air temperature; climate change; extremes; trends; variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EXTREMES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TIME-VARYING MEANS; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EURASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884145963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50629     Document Type: Article

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