Emergence of heat extremes attributable to anthropogenic influences

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3438-3443

  King, Andrew D ^a   Black, Mitchell T ^a   Min, Seung Ki ^b   Fischer, Erich M ^c   Mitchell, Daniel M ^d   Harrington, Luke J ^e   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

attribution; CMIP5; extremes; observations; time of emergence

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

ATTRIBUTION; CMIP5; EXTREMES; OBSERVATIONS; TIME OF EMERGENCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84979492886     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067448     Document Type: Article

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