Interpreting climate model projections of extreme weather events

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-28

  Vavrus, Stephen J ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Lorenz, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Model; CMIP; Downscaled; Extremes; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953861198     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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