Attribution of extreme weather and climate events overestimated by unreliable climate simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2158-2164

  Bellprat, Omar ^a,b   Doblas Reyes, Francisco ^a,b,c  

^a Climate Dynamics and Impacts Unit Institut Català de Ciències del Clima IC3   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

climate change; climate extremes; event attribution; reliability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISKS; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EVENT ATTRIBUTION; EXTREME WEATHER; MODEL ENSEMBLES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84960146133     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067189     Document Type: Article

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