Observed climate change hotspots

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3521-3528

  Turco, M ^a   Palazzi, E ^a   Von Hardenberg, J ^a   Provenzale, A ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

climate change; climate extremes; climate variability; precipitation; temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MEAN TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN;

EID: 84930473636     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063891     Document Type: Article

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