Anthropogenic climate change affects meteorological drought risk in Europe

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Gudmundsson, L ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate change; detection and attribution; drought; Europe; precipitation; risk

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; EUROPE; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; WATER BALANCE COMPONENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROUGHT STRESS; GREENHOUSE GAS; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84964777680     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044005     Document Type: Article

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