The changing shape of Northern Hemisphere summer temperature distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8849-8868

  McKinnon, Karen A ^a   Rhines, Andrew ^b   Tingley, Martin P ^c   Huybers, Peter ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84982918673     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025292     Document Type: Article

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