Climate change, climate justice and the application of probabilistic event attribution to summer heat extremes in the California Central Valley

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 427-438

  Mera, Roberto ^a,b   Massey, Neil ^c   Rupp, David E ^a   Mote, Philip ^a   Allen, Myles ^c   Frumhoff, Peter C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEALTH RISKS; IONIZATION OF GASES; PUBLIC RISKS;

CLIMATE JUSTICES; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FARM WORKERS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL MODEL; SUMMER HEAT; SUPER ENSEMBLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; EXTREME EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMIDITY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEATHER;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947869359     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1474-3     Document Type: Article

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