Role of soil moisture versus recent climate change for the 2010 heat wave in western Russia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2819-2826

  Hauser, Mathias ^a   Orth, René ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

event attribution; Russia 2010; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; EVENT ATTRIBUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; RUSSIA 2010; TEMPERATURE FEEDBACK;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVE MODELING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84977962691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068036     Document Type: Article

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