Strongly increasing heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 21st century

Climatic Change

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 245-260

  Lelieveld, J ^a,b   Proestos, Y ^b   Hadjinicolaou, P ^b   Tanarhte, M ^a   Tyrlis, E ^b   Zittis, G ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE WARMING; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA; MODEL CALCULATIONS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DESERT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84964311525     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1665-6     Document Type: Article

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