Attributing the probability of South African weather extremes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions: Spatial characteristics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3238-3243

  Angélil, Oliver ^a   Stone, Dáithí A ^a   Pall, Pardeep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attribution; extremes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; ATTRIBUTION; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; EXTREMES; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

PROBABILITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; EXTREME EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84901931164     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059760     Document Type: Article

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