How climate change affects extreme weather events: Research can increasingly determine the contribution of climate change to extreme events such as droughts

Science

Volumn 352, Issue 6293, 2016, Pages 1517-1518

  Stott, Peter ^a,b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH WORK; WEATHER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORT SURVEY; WEATHER; COLD; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

CHINA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; EXTREME COLD; EXTREME HEAT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84976332652     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7271     Document Type: Short Survey

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