On the attribution of a single event to climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8297-8301

  Hansen, Gerrit ^a   Auffhammer, Maximilian ^b,d   Solow, Andrew R ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Statistics

Indexed keywords

RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISKS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; SINGLE EVENT; STATISTICAL FORMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXTREME EVENT; SEVERE WEATHER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84909606588     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00399.1     Document Type: Article

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