Use of models and observations in event attribution

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate models; extreme events; observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE RESEARCH; ENGLAND; EXTREME EVENTS; GRAND CHALLENGE; OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84934324637     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/071001     Document Type: Review

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