Fast-track attribution assessments based on pre-computed estimates of changes in the odds of warm extremes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1547-1564

  Christidis, Nikolaos ^a   Stott, Peter A ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic forcings; Detection and attribution; Regional temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; WARMING;

EID: 84941425113     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2408-x     Document Type: Article

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