Recent increases in extreme temperature occurrence over land

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4669-4675

  Weaver, Scott J ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   Chen, Mingyue ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

extreme temperatures; global warming; mean temperature shift

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EXTREME TEMPERATURE EVENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HISTORICAL MODELS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84903800613     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060300     Document Type: Article

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