Seasonal mean temperature changes control future heat waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 7653-7660

  Argüeso, Daniel ^a,b,c   Di Luca, Alejandro ^a   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah E ^a,b   Evans, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

climate projections; CMIP5; heat waves; temperature changes; temperature variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; CMIP5; HEAT WAVES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84978517874     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069408     Document Type: Article

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