Comparing IPCC assessments: how do the AR4 and SREX assessments of changes in extremes differ?

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-21

  Nicholls, Neville ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HURRICANES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORMS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE RECORDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84951898318     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0818-0     Document Type: Article

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