Avoided climate impacts of urban and rural heat and cold waves over the U.S. using large climate model ensembles for RCP8.5 and RCP4.5

Climatic Change

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 2018, Pages 377-392

  Oleson, K W ^a   Anderson, G B ^b   Jones, B ^c   McGinnis, S A ^a   Sanderson, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RURAL AREAS;

AVOIDED IMPACTS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GRID CELLS; MODEL ENSEMBLES; URBAN AND RURAL; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD WAVE; EXTREME EVENT; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944561863     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1504-1     Document Type: Article

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