Detection of anthropogenic influence on a summertime heat stress index

Climatic Change

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 25-39

  Knutson, Thomas R ^a   Ploshay, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; THERMAL STRESS;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL ENSEMBLES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; WET BULB GLOBE TEMPERATURE INDICES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; INDEX METHOD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SUMMER;

EID: 84973124426     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1708-z     Document Type: Article

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