Climate change impacts on extreme events in the United States: an uncertainty analysis

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-81

  Monier, Erwan ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL SYSTEM MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84964305207     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1048-1     Document Type: Article

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