Quantitative estimates of anthropogenic contributions to extreme national and State monthly, seasonal and annual average temperatures for Australia

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 215-230

  Lewis, Sophie C ^a,c   Karoly, David J ^a   Yu, Minghong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84936153816     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6403.004     Document Type: Article

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