The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  King, Andrew D ^a,b   Donat, Markus G ^a   Fischer, Erich M ^c   Hawkins, Ed ^d   Alexander, Lisa V ^a   Karoly, David J ^b   Dittus, Andrea J ^b   Lewis, Sophie C ^b,e   Perkins, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attribution; Central England temperature; CMIP5; precipitation; temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ATTRIBUTION; CMIP5; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; ENGLAND; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84945218981     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094015     Document Type: Article

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